‘Explosion’ noises heard in Huntsville area are rocket engine hotfire tests, officials say

The rumble you will hear today, Monday, January 5 2026 is the sound of rocket engine hotfire testing. Hotfire testing — a ...
Ars Technica

After back-to-back failures, SpaceX tests its fixes on the next Starship

SpaceX fired six Raptor engines on the company’s next Starship rocket Monday, clearing a major hurdle on the path to launch later this month on a high-stakes test flight to get the private rocket ...
Space on MSN

Footage of NASA firing up Artemis moon rocket engine for 550 second test

The Space Launch System rocket's RS-25 engine was fired up for the “final round of certification testing ahead of production ...
AOL

SpaceX Starship upper stage explodes during countdown to engine test firing

The dramatic explosion of a SpaceX Starship upper stage rocket during a test at the company's Starbase facility on the Texas Gulf coast late Wednesday may have been triggered by the rupture of a ...