I'm not sure the hot staging was proven. It's true the stages did separate, and the booster didn't fail immediately, but from what we can tell from the telemetry, it is the hot staging that caused the ...

The loss of Booster 18 during gas pressure testing only cost SpaceX the shell of a booster. There were no raptor engines in it. UPDATE SpaceX says they will stack the Booster 19 Super Heavy Booster in ...

SpaceX rolled out the next generation of Starship to Masseys for testing, but during a routine gas system pressure test as SpaceX calls it, the Liquid Oxygen Tank ruptured. This leaves SpaceX with no ...