SpaceX has postponed the launch attempt of its Starship rocket due to a technical issue. Starship was meant to blast off on an orbital test flight on Monday from the Starbase facilities — SpaceX's launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. But a pressurisation issue on the booster caused engineers to hold off on the launch attempt. A back-up opportunity is available after 24 and 48 hours. | The National

A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space during a test flight, eight minutes after liftoff from its South Texas rocket facilities, on January 16. Footage showed fiery wreckage over the skies of Turks and Caicos Islands, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter. | TRT Afrika

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday, August 26, launched its giant Starship rocket for a tenth test flight aiming to overcome development setbacks and clinch long-sought technical milestones key to the Mars rocket's reusable design. The towering 403-foot-tall Starship system lifted off around 7:30 PM from SpaceX's Starbase facilities in south Texas on a mission to test the ship's new heat shield tiles and satellite deployment abilities, among hundreds of other upgrades from past iterations. The rocket