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Elon Musk has finally broken his silence after his company’s rocket, the most powerful ever made, exploded shortly after launch. Starship successfully left its launchpad in Texas on Thursday ...
Here, a crew sets up a remote camera to capture today’s launch – as the star of the show, the vast Starship, looms over them. (AFP via Getty Images) SpaceX livestream available on YouTube channel
SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket makes it farther than the last test flight, but the uncrewed ship and booster are lost. SpaceX Starship's second uncrewed launch ends in explosion Skip to main content
Last year the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) noted in a 183-page document that SpaceX needed to comply with over 75 mitigation measures ahead of the Starship rocket launch program.
Starship flight test 5 was the fifth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on October 13, 2024. The prototype vehicles flown were the Starship Ship 30 upper-stage and Super Heavy Booster 12 .
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 ...
The spacecraft trajectory was suborbital, with a 234 km (145 mi) apogee and −50 km (−31 mi) perigee, [26] although the ship did reach orbital speed. [27] A scheduled restart of a Raptor engine for a prograde burn test did not occur, which would have resulted in a 50 km (31 mi) perigee and somewhat later entry into the atmosphere. [26]
When stacked and fully fueled, Starship has a mass of approximately 5,000 t (11,000,000 lb), [c] a diameter of 9 m (30 ft) [16] and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). [17] The rocket has been designed with the goal of being fully reusable to reduce launch costs; [18] it consists of the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage [19] which are powered by Raptor and Raptor Vacuum engines.