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SpaceX Starship mega-rocket has stumbled on the road to commercial use, unexpectedly dropping out of communications and exploding as it screamed toward space for its seventh flight on Thursday.The mishap occurred on the same day SpaceX rival Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit.
'With that, there's a lot of things you're upgrading, but there's a lot of things you're going to learn as all those systems are now interacting with each other for the first time.'For the first time, SpaceX flew Starship with a reused Raptor rocket engine.The Super Heavy booster runs on 33 Raptor engines. For the entire rocket to be reusable, as Musk has said he intends, then those engines must be recycled and reused too.
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