On Thursday, SpaceX’s Starship exploded minutes after lifting off from Texas. This explosion doomed an attempt to deploy mock satellites, the second consecutive failure this year after Musk’s Mars rocket program.
Several videos were shared on social media showing fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near South Florida and the Bahamas after the Starship’s breakup in space. This occurred shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off.
This failure occurred more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight ended in an explosive failure. These continuous mishaps happened in the early mission phases that SpaceX easily surpassed earlier. It indicates serious setbacks for Musck programs that were supposed to be speeded up this year.
The eighth test flight of Sarship, which is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, was launched from its Starbase site in South Texas.
The huge first-stage booster of Starship, known as Super Heavy, came back to Starbase for a launch-tower catch about seven minutes after liftoff as planned. However, the vehicle’s 171-foot-tall upper stage Starship witnessed a serious issue shortly, then it ended up exploding over the Atlantic Ocean.
The rocket was not carrying any astronauts. SpaceX stopped the live stream shortly after the launch and gave no information on where debris would fall.
Sharing about the incident, ShapcX said that the vehicle experienced a rapid, unscheduled disassembly and we lost contact. The team is coordinating with safety officials and we will check the flight data to understand the main cause of this explosion.
As debris scarred the different parts of the Caribbean, the Federal Aviation Administration issued ground stops of commercial flights at Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Miami, and Orlando airports due to the space launch debris. Some flights were also diverse around Turks and Caicos.
