Latest Super Heavy Booster News
Mechazilla Explained: How SpaceX Catches Super Heavy Boosters
Mechazilla is the Starbase launch tower and its chopsticks: mechanical arms that catch a returning Super Heavy on interstage hardpoints…
Raptor 1 vs 2 vs 3 — How SpaceX’s Methane Engine Evolved
SpaceX's Raptor engine has gone through three generations, each with more thrust and less mass. Raptor 3 makes about 50%…
Starship Reaches Orbit for the First Time, Deploys 26 Starlink V3
Flight 14 / Starlink Group 31-1 reached sustained Starship orbit for the first time on 28 September 2026 and deployed…
SpaceX Aims Flight 14 as Early as Sep 28 After Sep 22 Slip
SpaceX now targets Flight 14 as early as Monday 28 September 2026, off the prior Sep 22 window, pending approval.…
SpaceX Lifts Booster 21 to Pad 2 Tower for Catch Tests
NASASpaceflight reported Saturday that SpaceX lifted Super Heavy Booster 21 off Pad 2 and raised it to the top of…
SpaceX Static-Fires All 33 Engines on Booster 21 for Flight 14
SpaceX completed a full-duration 33-engine static fire of Super Heavy Booster 21 at Starbase Pad 2 on Aug. 28, 2026,…
Super Heavy Booster 21 Rolls to Pad 2 for Flight 14
SpaceX rolled Super Heavy Booster 21 to Pad 2 at Starbase for Starship Flight 14, documented by NASASpaceflight on Aug.…
How a Starship Landing Works
Starship bleeds speed in the atmosphere, then flips and lands, instead of gliding like a shuttle or hovering down from…
What is Super Heavy Booster?
Super Heavy is the stainless-steel first stage of Starship. It lifts the stack through the dense atmosphere, then hands the…
What is Starship?
Starship is SpaceX’s fully reusable launch system, a stainless-steel ship and Super Heavy booster built to fly often and move…
