Anonymous ID: f81710 Nov. 18, 2023, 6:59 a.m. No.19936621   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6799 >>6882 >>6947

SpaceX launches Super Heavy-Starship rocket on 2nd test flight, but fails to get to space

November 18, 2023 / 9:17 AM EST

SpaceX's gargantuan Super Heavy-Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, blasted off on its second test flight Saturday, and while the initial stages of the mission went smoothly, the first stage broke apart moments after separation from the Starship upper stage. The Starship, in turn, blew itself up as it neared space.

>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-launch-super-heavy-starship-rocket-2nd-test-flight-2023-11-18/

SpaceX Starship launch presumed failed minutes after reaching space

November 18, 20239:30 AM ESTUpdated 18 min ago

BOCA CHICA, Texas, Nov 18 (Reuters) - SpaceX's uncrewed spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was presumed to have failed in space minutes after lifting off on Saturday in its second test, after its first attempt ended in an explosion.

 

The two-stage rocketship blasted off from the Elon Musk-owned company's Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in Texas, soaring roughly 55 miles (90 km) above ground on a planned 90-minte flight into space.

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But the rocket's Super Heavy first stage booster, though it appeared to achieve a crucial maneuver to separate with its core stage, exploded over the Gulf of Mexico shortly after detaching, a SpaceX webcast showed.

 

Meanwhile, the core Starship booster carried further toward space, but a few minutes later a company broadcaster said that SpaceX mission control suddenly lost contact with the vehicle.

 

"We have lost the data from the second stageโ€ฆ we think we may have lost the second stage," SpaceX's livestream host John Insprucker said.

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"About eight minutes into the test mission, a camera view tracking the Starship booster appeared to show an explosion that would suggest the vehicle failed at that time."

The rocket's altitude was 91 miles (148 km).

>https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-starship-launched-test-flight-texas-after-last-one-blew-up-2023-11-18/

Anonymous ID: f81710 Nov. 18, 2023, 7:34 a.m. No.19936748   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Wonder if Elon is going to buy Media Matters after he starts that "thermonuclear" lawsuit against them Mondayโ€ฆ if so, he'd be the top board admin here.. wonder if the result would be the same scenario as the launch todayโ€ฆ Things are blowing up in Elon's face, it seems like a pattern.