Watch: SpaceX Starship Test Flight Ends in Explosion on Second Try | WSJ
Watch: SpaceX Starship Test Flight Ends in Explosion on Second Try | WSJ
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a test flight of its Starship rocket early Saturday from its spaceport in Texas, reaching a crucial booster separation stage before exploding. The company’s previous launch attempt in April ended in an explosion.
00:00 Launch
00:40 Booster separation
01:12 Booster explodes
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This was an epic flight. Can’t believe all those raptors actually ran through pretty much a full burn. I’d be interested to see where the second stage debris ends up though.
My workplace is roughly 20 miles away from the launch site and it shook the whole building like an earthquake
@TheEliminatorsame woke up the whole neighborhood about 24 miles away in Brownsville.
@TheEliminatorbro! Fr? No wayyyy!
@TheEliminatordamn…sorry to hear that
They ran their full burns
A rapid unscheduled disassembly. That’s classic.
And all the pelon fans are cheering!
What a fancy way of saying “absolutely obliterated” 😂
My mind just rapidly disassembled
It’s known as a “RUD” sir. /sniff
They scheduled it to disassemble a 100 meters before hitting the recovery pad.
It’s actually the point of the test – to see where the rocket needs improvement. 8 minutes! Better than the first. Great job Space X!
cmon Benzy, lets be real, it could have gone a lot better and a lot worse, I am but a mere layman, a realist you could even say. Here is my take. I spied what appeared to be the lox tank at the other end exploding after the fire was already a little too well lit. Perhaps this was due to the heat of the various ‘mini explosions’ beforehand eventually rupturing lox tank via increased pressure as the final combustion appeared well after the expelling of lox
The explosion is so cool looking, the sheer speed of the gases expanding
Yeah with little to no atmosphere it’s insane how fast it expands
Maybe they should plan their next launch on the 4th of July.
It’s a cool partial visual of what an explosion might look like in space in real time!
Well universe is full of maters we do not know yet.
@Sullyly no it isnt
Bro that explosion is insane
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely terrible headline, for an absolutely phenomenal engineering feat that pushed the envelope in a thousand new ways. Well done SpaceX, absolutely amazing work!
SpaceX has 3 newer versions almost ready to fly.
Tankers were there right after the launch refilling the tank farm. IFT3 will probably launch in early December.
rtf
Amazing, well done to the engineering team!
It failed. Again!
@David Johnson, failure depends on the mission goals…
@David Madlener I guess, that’s one way to look at it.
@David Madlener Seeing how the mission was supposed to take it to orbit and back, and they lost connection 15 minutes in, pretty sure most people would call that a failure.
You guys are good at reporting things in the worst possible light.
Yeah, reading the video title I assumed it was a failure. I know nothing about spaceships though
Yeah, they didn’t mention that SpaceX self-destructed both this launch and the last one, after an equipment failure. That’s a rather big point to leave out.
@M Northwhat does that mean???
Congratulations on the successful launch and separation! Even though there were some challenges today, these are giant leaps in mankind’s journey to the stars. Great job!
Giant leaps????! What u be smokin’ dude? Humans have been launching big rockets into space for over 60 years. U mean a giant leap for elon musk–the dude is still trying learn how to walk when its competitors have already been there, done that
@Molly Boltonbro lay of the pipe
@Molly Bolton What are you talking about??? SpaceX is attempting to launch the words largest rocket into space. This rocket is bigger than an NFL football field and twice the says of the worlds second largest rocket SLS.
@Alex B kinda like the world’s largest pizza, or the world’s heaviest snowblower. yawn–once a technology is been proven, making it bigger nothing to scream about