SpaceX’s first attempt at a launch to orbital velocity of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster from Boca Chica, Texas cleared the pad before the spacecraft burst into flames a few minutes into flight.
SpaceX’s integrated Starship spacecraft successfully took off from its launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday but didn’t manage to fully complete its test flight. The spacecraft spun out of control before bursting into a ball of flames about four minutes into its flight, cutting the test short. In a statement on Twitter, SpaceX said, “Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation.
However, SpaceX wasn’t going to take advantage of this feature this time around, as the booster was supposed to drop into the Gulf of Mexico shortly after launch instead of attempting to land upright. According to SpaceX, the goal of today’s test was to “inform and improve the probability of success in the future as SpaceX rapidly advances development of Starship,” even if things don’t go as planned during the flight.
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