The rocket exploded when preparing for an engine test at the SpaceX Starbase facility in Texas. SpaceX said all personnel were accounted for and safe.
A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded into a huge fireball while preparing for a routine test on Wednesday.
The rocket, designed to be the most powerful in the world, was preparing for its tenth test flight at the SpaceX Starbase facility at the southern tip of Texas.
Local officials confirmed the explosion took place at a time when the rocket was preparing for a “routine static fire test” of its engines.
That means engineers were set to test the rocket’s engines with the craft still held down on its launch pad. But something went wrong and the rocket exploded.
And SpaceX is supposed to be the ‘good’ company that Elon runs. NASA needs to cancel the HLS contract and claw back the money already spent.
NASA should never have started subcontracting/giving work to private companies like SpaceX and Boeing. NASA’s talent takes pride in their work and does things well. Private companies are incentivized to cut corners, which you cannot do with spaceflight.
It’s been a problem for a while. Those o-rings that failed with the Challenger? Made by a company run by the FLDS child rape cult.
Unfortunately that’s incorrect. As much as I hate Elon, ULA would have been billing NASA cost plus for launches instead of the relatively cheap SpaceX ones.
SpaceX/Starlink is also a good illustration of why you can’t leave that much power in the hands of one man in the private sector
Used to hear that spacex has been successful in spite of his meddling, not because of it.
I do wonder if he started taking the reins with Starship, because it sure seems to be giving them a really hard time.