The company performed a "static fire" on Wednesday (Sept. 18) at its Starbase site in South Texas, briefly igniting the six Raptor engines of Ship 31, the upper stage of the vehicle that will conduct the sixth Starship test flight.

SpaceX shared footage of a recent static fire test involving its Starship spacecraft, a modified version of which is aimed at putting astronauts on the moon.

For the past several days, an offshore service ship with a giant crane has been loitering off the coast of Boca Chica Beach near a spot in the Gulf of Mexico where a SpaceX Starship Super Heavy ...