US company SpaceX has successfully launched the latest flight of its Starship spacecraft into orbit but did not recover the booster rocket as planned. The company, owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk, is hoping to develop a fully reusable rocket system. It had planned to recover both the booster an»»»

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket blasted off from Texas on Friday afternoon, as the aerospace company sought to make history with a double catch of its reusable rocket. Starship Flight 15 is expected to orbit the Earth about 14 times over the course of 22 hours, before the company catches the rocket at»»»

A spacecraft that has so far been brought back to Earth through ocean splashdowns could soon be caught mid-air by giant mechanical arms at its launch site.SpaceX is preparing to attempt its first-ever land-based recovery of Starship's upper stage, marking a major step in Elon Musk's ambition to mak»»»