The SpaceX Starship rocket exploded about four minutes after launch after five of its 33 Raptor engines failed and the spacecraft began to spin.
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It's not yet known what went wrong and it was unclear if all 33 Raptors were firing at launch. The rocket blew up at about 127,000 feet over the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers are analyzing data.
Starship is a reusable rocket larger and far more powerful than NASA's Artemis Special Launch System and one that could take humans to the moon and Mars. The launch, with no one aboard, was the second attempt to fly the combined Starship spacecraft and its 33-engine Super Heavy booster.
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Should’ve spent that money on work problems
Lol, resources are limited on earth . But in space unlimited with that kind of thinking you are bound to be peasant for life
There should be some hot air balloons up there around to capture better images
@Soheil Zarrein 🤦🤦
*Write
@Soheil Zarrein angry f22 noises
Yeah, I agree. Still great footage for an object so far away!
There was a blimp.
Risky – the rocket might go off course and hit a balloon.
Terrible tittle. It was a deliberate flight termination after stage separation failure. This is a first test flight that hoped to clear Stage 0 and everything you saw after that was a treasure trove of data for future attempts. Do your job right!
controlled explosion?
Probably looks like FTS Flight termination system was used
yeah, almost certainly
It didn’t separate like it was supposed to and went out of control. blew it up otherwise who knows where it would have landed. I live in the area. There are communities close by.
I don’t think people understand just how big the starship is compared to a normal NASA shuttle. The thing is freaking huge so far it fly that far in its inaugural test flight is monumental. The amount of data gained from this will change everything for space travel.
The scientists don’t look too surprised that it blew up. Do you think that they knew it was most likely going to blow up?
@latonya green-warnererrors are to be expected when performing cutting-edge engineering 🎉 congrats to SpaceX
@latonya green-warner
SpaceX went through countless explosions during the development of the Falcon 9.
I assume the amount of information that helped them develop and stabilize that rocket tought the team alot and made them expect something going wrong.
It’s the same story. I doubt they expected a flawless flight first launch, as they say you learn from your mistakes.
6 times the size of NASAs shuttle and the launch went flawlessly. these headlines are written with an insane amount of emotive conjugation.
@Unsent It also launched successfully… but they chose to use the headline “Starship Explodes” that’s what emotive conjugation is. It’s used in both left and right media alike to push their agenda. Look up Russel’s Conjugates.
@VARIANT OF it literally exploded lol. Cope more
@Rabbitholedynamics that literally wasn’t even close to the biggest storyline of the launch
@Rabbitholedynamics I’ll get around to reading your thesis on breaking news when I have time.
Even though a RUD occurred this launch was beyond successful. There was a high chance it wouldn’t have even made it past the launch pad. It’s not a exaggeration to say that this will be remembered as a defining moment in mankind’s quest/attempt to leave Earth. That is if we don’t destroy ourselves before it can happen.
That’s the only time I’ve heard the nominal guy said not nominal
I think that may be true
pretty sure he did, and the people posting this made a mistake
Still a win. It’s done by iteration!
It’s happening!!
Somebody impose the Twitter logo over the Rocket.
So much boost
The clapping lol
Bro my class was watching this
So that’s how they gonna sent humans on Mars huh 🤔
It was still an incredible feat. Failure is the best learning experience. I hate that the msm only puts, STAR SHIP EXPLODES in there titles. Today was absolutely incredible, and the amount of data they gathered is invaluable.
Give people context please it didn’t just launch and explode directly after. A lot of milestones where met.
One step closer to moon and Mars
Right lol
Wait so they intended to explode it?😅
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