SpaceX’s mighty rocket ship – the Starship Super Heavy- the world’s biggest rocket, has exploded during its test flight.
“As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation. Teams will continue to review data and work toward our next flight test,” SpaceX tweeted.
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The company added that it would take learnings from this test to improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary.
This was the second time the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond was ignited. Earlier on Monday, the planned lift-off of the two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 120 meters high was aborted less than 10 minutes ahead of the scheduled launch owing to pressurisation issue in the first-stage booster.
The rocket was powered by 33 Raptor engines under the Super Heavy rockets on its maiden orbital flight.
Getting the Starship to space for the first time would represent a key milestone in SpaceX’s ambition of sending humans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars – at least initially as part of NASA’s newly inaugurated human spaceflight program, Artemis.