The "rapid unscheduled disassembly" was likely caused by a propellant leak, Elon Musk said, and was captured on video by spectators on the ground.
ELON Musk’s Starship rocket exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight in a dramatic mid-air failure – but the Tesla tycoon appears to remain upbeat about his space endeavours.
SpaceX launched its Starship mega-rocket for the seventh time. It achieved an epic booster catch, but the ship was lost.
The latest disintegration of a SpaceX test flight was a spectacular sight, as broken-up rocket ... struck people in Turks and Caicos saw their evening sky ablaze with the debris of Ship 33.
ELON Musk's Starship rocket exploded ... we did lose the ship. "It looks like we lost contact a little under eight and a half minutes into the flight.” Confirming the explosion, SpaceX wrote ...
The company says that “Starship flew within its designated launch corridor” and “any surviving pieces of debris would have fallen into the designated hazard area.” The falling debris put on a show in ...
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Flights across the Caribbean were hastily diverted on Thursday following the explosion ... ship, leading to a rapid unscheduled disassembly." While Musk envisions Starship potentially transporting ...