(Bloomberg) -- SpaceX lost its Starship rocket during its seventh test flight, an unexpected setback after the company had made steady progress during its test flight campaign for the vehicle.

SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket has stumbled on the road to commercial use. On Thursday, it unexpectedly dropped out of communications and exploded as it screamed toward space for its seventh flight.

This story was updated to add a video. A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up during a test flight of the megarocket's capabilities Thursday. Two extended "chopsticks" successfully caught the Super ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed ...

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ...

Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its massive New Glenn rocket into orbit for the first time early Thursday, marking a new step in the commercial space race.

The rocket’s inaugural mission had been delayed by several years but finally hit the skies at 2:03am local time today (6:03pm AEDT) after blasting off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in ...

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...

Key points The seventh test flight of SpaceX's Starship launched from Texas It is the world's largest and most powerful rocket at nearly 400ft tall Elon Musk's SpaceX is trying to build the first ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has launched into orbit, marking a major milestone for Jeff Bezos’ space company. With its enormous payload capacity and reusable design, New Glenn aims to revolutionise ...

Blue Origin's new flagship rocket New Glenn thundered off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida on Thursday. The mission put the company’s Blue Ring Pathfinder test satellite into orbit ...

Hundreds of employees from Blue Origin’s headquarters in Kent, Washington, and its Florida rocket factory watched the historic launch via a company livestream. (AP) Blue Origin’s massive New ...