SpaceX tested its huge Starship launch system for the eighth time on Thursday. The company caught the booster out of midair, but lost another upper stage in space.

A look back at all of the spectacular tests — and failures — that have punctuated SpaceX's development of its Starship rocket ...

SpaceX pulled off the rocket booster catch maneuver during its eighth test flight but the Starship spacecraft exploded over the Caribbean, according to reports from residents.

At the same time, the Starship ignited its own six Raptor ... And it did, with the arms of the so-called Mechazilla assembly managing to catch the Super Heavy, the third time SpaceX succeeded ...

That launch — which then President-elect Donald Trump and his family watched from Starbase in Texas — saw the Starship complete its flight, but the booster aborted the Mechazilla catch and ...

SpaceX catches 'Super Heavy' booster in mid-air for the 3rd time, Starship breaks apart SpaceX’s managed to pull off another impressive "Super" Heavy booster catch with its "Mechazilla", a ...

TL;DR: SpaceX completed its eighth Starship test flight ... a clean return back to the launch pad where it was caught by Mechazilla, marking the third time Super Heavy has been caught by the ...

(CNN) — SpaceX launched the eighth integrated test flight of its gargantuan Starship megarocket system ... within the “chopstick” arms of “Mechazilla,” or SpaceX’s launch tower ...

Did you know that the SpaceX Starship has an attic ... The most important of them were to do a repeat of the booster catch, but also test an upgraded design of the upper stage.

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster ... On the sides of the vehicle, non-structural versions of Starship’s catch fittings are installed to test the fittings’ thermal performance ...

SpaceX is gearing up for another thrilling Starship test. The Flight 8 mission will attempt to catch the Super Heavy booster using giant metal arms.

During the last Starship test run in January ... massive structure that the company designed to catch rockets mid-air. The tower was dubbed “Mechazilla” for its likeness to a metallic Godzilla.