But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...
we have lost contact with the ship.” SpaceX stated that the craft and rocket "experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly," similar language used in January when Starship's last test flight ...
ABOUT HALF AN HOUR AFTER LAUNCH, THIS WAS SPACEX’S EIGHTH TEST FLIGHT OF STARSHIP, THE BIGGEST ROCKET EVER. WESH TWO STEWART MOORE IS WALKING US THROUGH WHY IT EXPLODED STEWART. LET’S GO ...
A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched from Texas on Thursday, grounding flights and triggering warnings about falling spaceship debris. SpaceX confirmed the un-crewed ship had ...
The ship was moving quite violently “The vessel was just coated in ice,” when they got there, said Capt. Matthew Cox, the chopper pilot. “And the rest of the shore was ice and snow ...
The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted body of the rocket hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only ...