SpaceX Starship: Elon Musk's firm to try again with big rocket launch
Elon Musk's SpaceX company's mammoth new rocket, Starship, has exploded on its maiden flight.
The entrepreneur had tried to temper expectations before the launch. Just getting the vehicle off the ground and not destroying the launch pad infrastructure would be considered "a win", he said. A large explosion then ripped across the blue sky, presumably the result of computers triggering Starship's Flight Termination System.
That's double the thrust put out by the Saturn V rocket that famously sent men to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.
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