Starbase Archive
Older Starbase coverage from March 2026 to May 2026. Page 4 of 4. Headlines link to the outlet that reported them.
Homeowners in Port Isabel, South Padre Island, and Laguna Vista allege repeated rocket launches and landings caused structural damage to their properties.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Starting this week with our fabrication updates, in the early hours of Monday morning, Ship 41’s nose cone emerged from Star Factory. A little less than two hours...
Star Factory is the big production building at Starbase where Starship and Super Heavy sections are actually welded and stacked.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Late Friday afternoon, we were given a rare treat as SpaceX posted a long-form video hyping the upcoming 12th integrated flight test of the Starship program. The...
Flight 12 flew May 22, 2026 and graded partial: booster lost, ship splashdown. Starship is the fully reusable rocket SpaceX builds and flies at Starbase: the Super Heavy booster plus the Starship upper stage, stacked about 400 feet tall.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Over at the Massey Outpost, Starship 39 continued its test campaign. The ship was loaded with propellants and performed what appeared to be a spin prime test...
Massey's is the test site a few miles inland from the launch pads, where SpaceX pressure-tests and static-fires hardware before it goes anywhere near a flight.
A SpaceX-linked board is already in place as city leaders test a new model for growth, with key questions still unresolved.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), On Tuesday afternoon, Booster 20’s forward dome with an integrated hot staging section was brought out of the star factory and parked in the ring yard area. That...
Star Factory is the big production building at Starbase where Starship and Super Heavy sections are actually welded and stacked.
SpaceX completed a full duration of Starship V3 today clearing the path for Flight 12.
Flight 12 flew May 22, 2026 and graded partial: booster lost, ship splashdown. Ground testing at Starbase runs in a set order: cryogenic pressure tests first, then a static fire where the engines light while the vehicle stays clamped down.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), On Wednesday, SpaceX performed a 12th round of cryogenic testing on the Ship 39.1 test tank as they continue working to ensure the Block III ship designs will...
SpaceX numbers each airframe rather than each flight, so a headline about Ship 40 or Booster 21 is about one specific vehicle, not the mission number.
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STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), This week at Starbase saw continued production on Booster 20 with the booster’s liquid oxygen propellant tank for landing burns being brought into Mega Bay 1 for...
The bays at Starbase are the tall assembly buildings: boosters and ships get stacked and fitted out inside before rolling to the pad.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Testing at pad 2 continues with water deluge, methane plumbing, and full-speed chopstick tests taking place amid SpaceX’s continuing efforts to validate and make...
Starbase has two launch pads. The newer one was built with a flame trench and water deluge after the first flight tore up the original mount.
The announcement arrives after Flight 11 on October 13 of last year, which concluded a busy 2025 testing campaign. Since then, SpaceX has focused on ground testing, including cryoproofing of Ship 39...
Flight 11 flew October 13, 2025 and graded success: booster splashdown, ship splashdown. SpaceX numbers each airframe rather than each flight, so a headline about Ship 40 or Booster 21 is about one specific vehicle, not the mission number.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), On Monday morning, the B18.3 test tank was rolled out of Mega Bay 1 and parked in the ring yard area. Later that morning, we could see that the test arms had been...
The bays at Starbase are the tall assembly buildings: boosters and ships get stacked and fitted out inside before rolling to the pad.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), On Monday, the letters from the Gateway to Mars sign that used to adorn the launch complex wall before the construction of Pad 2 were brought back to the pad. Over...
Anything beyond Earth orbit is where Starship is actually aimed: the point of a fully reusable heavy-lift vehicle is cargo to the Moon and eventually Mars.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Starting off this week at the build site on Tuesday, a pan from Rovercam caught new steel framing on the exterior wall of Star Factory, likely for structural tie-ins...
Star Factory is the big production building at Starbase where Starship and Super Heavy sections are actually welded and stacked.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), This week, LabPadre saw an integrated Raptor 3 fire up for the first time. Was Booster 19’s first static fire a success? At Starbase, the latest test campaign for...
Raptor is the methane-fueled engine that powers both stages: 33 on the Super Heavy booster, six on the Starship upper stage.
STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral), Starting off with this week’s fabrication updates, on Monday morning, part of Booster 20’s transfer tube was spotted being moved into Mega Bay 2 for integration. The...
The bays at Starbase are the tall assembly buildings: boosters and ships get stacked and fitted out inside before rolling to the pad.
SpaceX is targeting April for the debut test launch of Starship V3 "Version 3"
Starship is the fully reusable rocket SpaceX builds and flies at Starbase: the Super Heavy booster plus the Starship upper stage, stacked about 400 feet tall.