28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
... Mars launch system called Starship – made its highest and longest flight yet from the firm’s Boca Chica, Texas, test facility this week. The event also marked the spacecraft's last flight too. The...
05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
...few weeks by SpaceX teams on the Texas coast, in Boca Chica, the latest incarnation, SN5 is powered by the same methane... yesterday, SpaceX had not performed a flight from their Boca Chica facility since its squat, smaller-scale Starship test vehicle ...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... will grow, with the most prominent addition in the US being the proposed SpaceX facility in Southwest Texas at Boca Chica. Adding in the Midland Spaceport and Blue Origins private launch facility in West Texas, the State will...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
...passenger appeal than the alternatives. SpaceX Starship launching on its second test flight from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad in Texas, USA, in November 2023. To provide safe transport as soon as is practicable, proven technology should be used...
27 April 2020
SpaceX's first full-scale Starship passes key test
..., became SpaceX’s first full-scale Starship prototype to pass a cryogenic proof test at the company’s launch site in Boca Chica, Texas on Sunday. The cryogenic proof involves filling some or all of the Starship SN4 prototype with ultra...
20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has bought two deepwater oil rigs near to the company’s rocket development facility in Boca Chica, Texas and is in the process of converting them into floating launchpads. Stationed in The Port of Brownsville, a deepwater seaport ...
