Ship 24 lit one of its six engines for about seven seconds on Thursday (Dec. 15). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SpaceX ...

Low-profile Chinese launch firm conducts first stage static fire One of China’s lower profile launch startups, Zenk Space, has conducted a first stage static fire for its Zhihang-1 rocket ahead of a ...

HELSINKI — Chinese commercial launch firm Space Pioneer appears to be moving towards a first launch of its Tianlong-3 rocket despite a disastrous static-fire test in June. Space Pioneer suffered a ...

SpaceX Starship had by far the longest static fire ever of about 1 minute. SpaceX upgraded the flame trench and other systems. This enables longer static fires. They can now test more conditions and ...

There is a bit more description about the SpaceX Starship 35 Static fire anomaly. There was second planned 60 second static fire but it was aborted after a flash. The static fire was stopped after 25 ...

When it comes to rockets, a “static-fire engine test,” by definition, means that the rocket should remain on the ground and not move. But during such a test in China on Sunday, that clearly didn’t ...

July 29 (UPI) --SpaceX scrubbed a static fire test for a Falcon 9 rocket that will carry the Crew-11 team to the International Space Station due to an error. SpaceX ...

SpaceX has cleared an important hurdle that brings it closer to the Starship system's first orbital flight test. The company has successfully completed a static fire test of the Super Heavy's current ...

All but two of the rocket's 33 Raptor engines were engaged during the critical test, which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says is still enough for an orbital launch. Reading time 3 minutes SpaceX performed the ...