When SpaceX caught a Super Heavy booster with the mechanical arms of its launch tower for the first time in October 2024, the 233-foot-tall rocket returned not to the pad it launched from, but to a tower that had been retrofitted with catch hardware after the fact.

SpaceX just revealed that it's on the hunt for additional launch sites for its Starship megarocket, eyeing locations both inside and beyond the United States.

It is far too soon to mention retirement, but astute observers of the space industry have noticed SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is not launching as often as it used to. The decline is modest so far, and it does not signal any problem at SpaceX or ...