Friday, May 29, 2020

SpaceX Starship Explodes During Test Firing

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has seen another setback in their efforts to develop its next generation Starship, after a full size prototype of the SpaceX Starship exploded after a test firing of its Raptor engines. Videos show the Starship exploding at SpaceX's test site at Boca Chica, Texas at 1:49 p.m. CDT, with debris falling all around the test site. The Starship is intended to eventually replace the Falcon 9 and Dragon, and is expected to be the basis for SpaceX's plan to deliver humans to Mars. The explosion is not the first for the SpaceX Starship, which also saw a failure in October.

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