Elon Musk congratulated the SpaceX team on Thursday after the company's Starship successfully launched before exploding in its first test flight.
was on hand in Boca Chica, Texas, to watch the successful launch and subsequent explosion of SpaceX's Starship on Thursday., watched the launch from a command room not far from the rocket launch site in southern Texas.
Minutes after a successful launch and awaiting stage separation, it experienced a failure, what SpaceX livestream hosts described as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." SpaceX said on Twitter"With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary," it said.
SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket self-destructs after its launch from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on an unmanned test flight near Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday.
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