Aug 22, 2024 · Over the last few months SpaceX has cleared land and constructed a new launch tower at its research, development, and launch facilities down at Starbase, Texas. This now gives the company three towers total for Starship, two at Starbase and one more over in …

SpaceX Starbase—previously, SpaceX South Texas Launch Site and SpaceX private launch site—is an industrial complex and rocket launch facility that serves as the main testing and production location for Starship launch vehicles, as well as the headquarters of the American space technology company SpaceX. [2]

Aug 22, 2024 · SpaceX is developing Starship — a fully reusable, 400-foot-tall (122-meter-tall) behemoth — to help humanity settle the moon and Mars, as well as achieve a number of other bold exploration...

Jan 9, 2025 · Starbase, Texas — SpaceX moved the Flight 7 Starship upper stage (Ship 33) to the launch site this morning. The vibrant CEO of the private US astronautics company Elon Musk shared the update in a post on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

Feb 18, 2025 · SpaceX plans to begin construction on a 380-foot-tall Starship Gigabay at Kennedy Space Center as early as April 2025. The Gigabay will be used to stack and finalize Super Heavy boosters...

Mar 7, 2025 · The Super Heavy booster of SpaceX's Starship megarocket comes back for a catch at its launch tower during the vehicle’s eighth test flight on March 6, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) Starship Die ...

1 day ago · It was SpaceX's third launch in a 13-hour span, as the company noted via X this morning. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ...

Aug 23, 2024 · SpaceX completed stacking Launch Tower 2 at Orbital Launch Pad B at Starbase, Texas, in record time, allowing for the next phase of preparations, including adding its own chopstick system.

In 2021, SpaceX broke ground on the launch and catch tower at Starbase. The tower rises ~480 feet in height—the tallest launch tower in the world—and it is designed to support launch, vehicle integration, and catch of the Super Heavy rocket booster.

Oct 13, 2024 · In SpaceX's fifth test flight of its Starship rocket, the company successfully returned the “Super Heavy” booster to the arms of the launch tower for the first time. The Starship rocket is...