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As Elon Musk’s spaceflight company attempted an impressive upgrade of its tough boost level, the level experienced a catastrophic malfunction.
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“What…what is it then?” “What is this?” “Everyone look up, look up. ” “Wow. What is that?” “I think it’s a rocket. ” “Three, two, one. ” “We lost all communications with the ship. ” “Wow. ” “This Array this, this is not good. Something happened. This thing exploded.
By Kenneth Chang
The seventh test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket failed Thursday when the vehicle’s level suffered a catastrophic malfunction while heading into space.
SpaceX was able to achieve some success by repeating the feat of catching the gargantuan Super Heavy booster back at the launchpad.
But then it emerged that some of the engines in an improved, longer edition of the level had been shut down prematurely. About 8. 5 minutes after launch, communications between the surface and the leveled vehicle, called Starship, were cut off.
“We can confirm that we did lose the ship,” said Kate Tice, one of the hosts of SpaceX’s video stream of the launch.
Videos posted on social media site X gave the impression of showing debris falling from the sky over the Caribbean, most likely parts of a disintegrated rocket.
In his own post on X, Musk shared a video of the debris and wrote: “Success is uncertain, but laughter is guaranteed! »
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