Starship ignited its Raptor engines Monday morning on a test stand near SpaceX's Starbase launch facility in South Texas. The engine ran for approximately 60 seconds, and SpaceX confirmed the test-firing in a post on X: "Starship completed a long duration six-engine static fire and is undergoing final preparations for the ninth flight test."

"Just before the Starship flight next week, I will give a company talk explaining the Mars game plan in Starbase, Texas, that will also be live-streamed on X."

SpaceX's Falcon 9 bolted off the pad at 12:38 p.m. at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying 28 Starlink satellites.

SpaceX is getting closer to launching Starship, the world's largest rocket, once again on a critical flight test later in May.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink 6-67 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today (May 14) at 12:38 p.m. EDT (1638 GMT). The rocket lifted off a

Live updates from the Starlink 6-83 mission, which launched at 1:02 a.m. on May 13 from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A.

Elon Musk said in an interview this week with Fox News host Jesse Watters that his focus on Mars has to do with ensuring humanity's longterm survival.

Justin Lopas spent years working at SpaceX, and even directly with Musk. He told BI how the lessons he learned are shaping his own startup.

IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will have to wait for a few more days before he could launch on his debut spaceflight. NASA announced on May 15 that Axiom Space's Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed to June to "finalize mission plans, spacecraft readiness, and logistics."