SpaceX’s Starship Explodes For Third Straight Time

USA Today reports:

SpaceX’s latest unmanned Starship launch at first went off without a boom on Tuesday, but eventually broke up almost an hour after it took off. After two test flights ended in dramatic explosions earlier this year, SpaceX’s ninth test of its Starship vehicle experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” on Tuesday, May 27, SpaceX confirmed on X.

That’s the same language used when Starship’s January and March flight tests unexpectedly exploded in the sky. Liftoff of SpaceX’s ninth flight test of its Starship vehicle happened just after 7:35 p.m. ET from SpaceX’s Starbase headquarters in Boca Chica, Texas.

Starship managed to reach its scheduled ship engine cutoff before disassembling, according to an X post from SpaceX Musk, who called the flight test a “big improvement” from the last one.

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It blew up. The last sentence means the Trump admin has lifted all restrictions. pic.twitter.com/zCeOFoQQ8j

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So no Mars eh https://t.co/F2CFQQtcta pic.twitter.com/W5EKJGpqno

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