SpaceX Starship Explodes In “Catastrophic Failure”

The Guardian reports:

One of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starships has exploded during a routine test in Texas, authorities said, in the latest setback to the billionaire’s dream of turning humanity into an interplanetary species.

The Starship 36 underwent “catastrophic failure and exploded” at the Starbase launch facility shortly after 11pm on Wednesday (0400 GMT Thursday), a Facebook post by the Cameron County authorities said.

A video shared in the post showed the megarocket attached to the launch arm, and then a flash and a towering, fiery explosion. SpaceX said the rocket was preparing for the 10th flight test when it “experienced a major anomaly while on a test stand at Starbase”, without elaborating on the nature of the complication.

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