A violent Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of a Starship component was captured on camera at SpaceX's Boca Chica facility. Starbase observer Zack Golden described it as among the most dramatic RUDs seen at the site in some time, sharing footage inclu...

Starship Flight 12, the maiden flight of V3 with Raptor 3 engines, has slipped from Musk's early-April target to a late April window. Booster 19 completed a 10-engine static fire on Pad 2 on March 16, but a full 33-engine static fire and FAA sign-...

SpaceX conducted the first static fire test of the next-generation Super Heavy V3 booster at Starbase, Texas on March 18, 2026, simultaneously marking the activation of Launch Pad 2 (Pad B). The test involved 33 Raptor engines in a full-duration b...

SpaceX has moved through an important stretch of preflight work on Ship 39 ahead of Flight 12, including cryogenic proof testing, while Booster 19 advances in what would be the first integrated flight campaign for Starship V3 hardware. Elon Musk s...

Voyager disclosed that Starlab has a$90.0 million commitment for one future launch service on board Starship. The filing does not disclose Starlab’s mass. Using SpaceX’s published Starship payload benchmark of up to 150 metric tons to LEO in fully...

SpaceX moved Ship 39, its first V3 Starship upper stage, to the Massey’s test site for cryogenic proof testing, a gating step before Flight 12. Reporting indicates SpaceX is also using new test infrastructure to validate flap hardware and even sim...

Elon Musk said on X that the next Starship launch is expected in roughly six weeks, pointing to a March window for Starship Flight 12. All eyes will be on this mission, with most of the step-change in payload mass and thrust coming from Raptor 3, ...

Elon Musk reiterated that Starship could be launching more than once per hour within ~3–4 years, implying up to ~10,000 launches per year if fully operational. At a notional ~100t payload per flight, this would equate to ~1 million tonnes to orbit...

Elon Musk said on X that SpaceX could manufacture as many as 10,000 Starships per year, responding to commentary on the scale of its new Gigabay infrastructure at Starbase. The statement materially exceeds the roughly 1,000 vehicles per year capac...

SpaceX announced on December 3 that it has received formal authorization to redevelop Space Launch Complex 37 (SLC-37) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station into a fully operational Starship launch facility, with construction already underway. The...