SpaceX is poised to launch its gargantuan Starship rocket on its twelfth major test flight on Thursday, part of a high-stakes mission as the Elon Musk-led company preps for the largest initial public offering in history.

Follow FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live updates from SpaceX’s predawn Falcon 9 rocket launch on a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

SpaceX launch will also provide a live-streamed look at the company's progress in developing its enormous Starship rocket.

FLORIDA TODAY photographers captured a gallery of images of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching and generating a "jellyfish" above Brevard County.

SpaceX plans to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from Southern California on May 19. The mission will deploy 24 Starlink broadband internet satellites into low-Earth orbit. This launch precedes the first flight of the much larger Starship rocket from South Texas ...

SpaceX is set to reignite a make-or-break testing campaign of its Starship megarocket — and the stakes are high for the company, NASA and beyond.

The video explains why modern moon missions still fail despite successful rocket launches and better technology. It argues that landing on the Moon is harder than people remember, especially at difficult sites like the far side or South Pole,

Shares of Rocket Lab, one of the handful of public rocket-launch companies, are down more than 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday, starting their dive right after SpaceX publicly filed for its IPO. Several other space stocks also fell in the post-market,