The next-generation spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket lifted off from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on a brief uncrewed test flight near Brownsville, Texas, before going up in flames.
The US space agency NASA has picked the Starship spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the Moon in late 2025.
The IMECE satellite will serve in the areas of defence, disaster management, environment and urbanisation and agriculture and forestry while in orbit.
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will take a long and winding path to Jupiter, which is 628 million kilometres (390 million miles) from Earth.
The US space agency will monitor the physical and mental health of volunteers inside a facility that mirrors the Martian environment to better understand humans' fortitude for future missions to the red planet.
NASA aims to send more astronauts to the Moon - more than five decades after the historic Apollo missions ended in 1972.
Though Relativity Space's rocket, the world's first, failed to reach orbit, the launch is still a huge breakthrough and a precursor of what's to come in the future of space exploration.
Technology has come a long way since NASA’s first Apollo missions. 40 years later, it aims to reflect those advances in its next-generation spacesuits.
The crew's six-month science mission will encompass about 200 experiments and technology demonstrations, from research on human cell growth to controlling combustible materials in microgravity.
Scientific breakthroughs by Asian and African nations have helped democratise space exploration through cooperation, not competition.
An uncrewed Russian Soyuz vessel took off from Kazakhstan for the ISS to eventually bring home US astronaut Frank Rubio and Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergei Prokopyev whose return vehicle was damaged by a tiny meteoroid.
During his six months in orbit AlNeyadi says he would like to observe the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims typically fast from dawn to sunset.
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