SpaceX has traced the likely cause of the explosion that destroyed its Starship vehicle during its Jan. 16 test flight to a leak of liquid oxygen or liquid methane.
Eyewitnesses of the SpaceX blast captured footage of glowing orange fragments streaking through the sky near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, leaving smoky trails in their wake.
SpaceX pulled off its “chopsticks” catch of a Super Heavy rocket booster but lost the Starship spacecraft on Thursday during the vehicle’s seventh uncrewed test flight.
After SpaceX’s Starship exploded over Turks and Caicos on Thursday, the FAA launched an investigation, demanding answers into the mishap.
Stunning footage has captured the moment Thursday's failed SpaceX rocket launch lit up the skies above the Turks and Caicos islands. The impressive display, which saw dozens of burning chunks of the giant spacecraft smear a colorful streak of smoke over the Atlantic,
Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, pulled off a daring booster catch on its most ambitious test flight yet, but the spacecraft was lost. Follow for the latest news.
SpaceX launched Starship on Thursday for a seventh test flight, after weather concerns pushed back an experiment that will feature the spacecraft’s first payload deployment test, and while it successfully caught the Super Heavy Booster, Starship lost connection and “experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
The seventh test of SpaceX's huge Starship rocket was nothing short of exhilarating, with a fiery explosion and a successful booster catch.
Starship experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," which is a phrase SpaceX coined to describe an explosion.
Starship Meteor Shower SpaceX's Starship has exploded into countless pieces of space junk as it reentered the atmosphere over the Caribbean. The company's seventh test flight has ended in a potential disaster,
"During the event, the FAA activated a Debris Response Area and briefly slowed aircraft outside the area where space vehicle debris was falling or stopped aircraft at their departure location."