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About four minutes after takeoff and during its first test flight, SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded in midair. The space rocket, from Elon Musk’s company, was launched from the Boca Chica platform, near Brownsville, Texas, United States, where hundreds of people had gathered to watch its ascent.
It was supposed to mark a milestone in the history of astronautics, but shortly after an apparent successful launch, the Starship rocket succumbed.
The 120-meter-tall spacecraft, the world’s largest, exploded in midair four minutes after being launched from the Boca Chica platform near Brownsville, Texas, United States.
Hundreds of people had come to the vicinity of the platform to witness the takeoff of the uncrewed test flight. Instead, however, they watched as the rocket’s motors ignited in a ball of flame and smoke.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX company device expected, at best, a 90-minute debut flight into space.
However, the upper module of Starship did not separate – as designed – from the Super Heavy, the lower module. And the combination vehicle was observed to flip from one end to the other, just before detonating.
The company described what happened as an “unscheduled breakup”; And despite the explosion, he called the operation a “success” because he got far enough from the platform without causing damage and that it represents a lesson for his future plans to send people to the Moon and eventually to Mars.
“With a test like this, success depends on how much we can learn, and launching today will improve the reliability of starship as we pursue the goal of bringing life to other planets,” SpaceX said in a message posted on its Twitter account.
Musk congratulated the entire team and stressed that “they have learned a lot” ahead of the next launch, which will take place “in a few months.”
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