SpaceX’s enormous Starship rocket finally launched – and then exploded

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The launch of SpaceX's Starship rocket, the biggest and most powerful to ever fly, didn't quite go as planned It lifted off from the Starbase launch facility in Texas on 20 April but exploded a few minutes afterwards. Learn more:

rocket, the biggest and most powerful to ever fly, lifted off from the Starbase launch facility in Texas on 20 April in its first full test. Shortly after liftoff, it exploded.

Those tests were all prototypes of the eponymous top part of Starship, the piece of the craft that is planned to eventually house

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