WATCH | SpaceX's Starship rocket successfully launched on first test flight, then explodes | News24

The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 120m high, blasted off from the company's Starbase spaceport and test facility east of Brownsville, Texas, for what SpaceX hoped, at best, would be a 90-minute debut flight into space.

A live SpaceX webcast of the lift-off showed the rocketship rising from the launch tower into the morning sky as the Super Heavy's raptor engines roared to life in a ball of flame and billowing clouds of exhaust and water vapor. But less than four minutes into the flight, the upper-stage Starship failed to separate as designed from the lower-stage Super Heavy, and the combined vehicle was seen flipping end over end before exploding.

Nevertheless, SpaceX officials on the webcast cheered the feat of getting the fully integrated Starship and booster rocket off the ground for a clean launch and declared the brief episode a successful test flight.Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

Classic example of spin. The headline news is: Musks Starship explodes minutes into test flight. Instead it leads with the fact that it successfully left the launch pad. It's like saying of a skydiver who dies after the chute fails to open: 'Skydiver makes successful jump, dies'

I don't think people fully grasp how big that thing is. It was a success. It was a test launch. There was no payload and was never intended to exit the atmosphere

Lol, where's the DA saying he needs to be an internet provider in SA? 😏

They still achieve their main objective and that was a successful launch of the starship with the rocket.

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