SpaceX completed their second Starship flight test, but an explosion ensued shortly after. More specifically, the Super Heavy booster exploded, while the upper-stage of Starship detonated before reaching its target altitude in a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Starship, along with its 33 Raptor engines, and the Super Heavy booster launched at 8 a.m. EDT from SpaceX’s Starbase test and manufacturing facility in Boca Chica. The Starship stage separation happened at approximately 2 minutes, 41 seconds after liftoff, and everything went to plan, that is until the Super Heavy booster exploded.
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What we do believe right now is that the automated flight termination system on second stage appears to have triggered very late in the burn, as we were headed downrange out over the Gulf of Mexico,” said John Insprucker, SpaceX’s Principal Integration Engineer.
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