One of SpaceX’s Starship Launch vehicles exploded late on Wednesday evening on a test standard in Texas, while the company was preparing for the tenth test flight of the heavy missile system.
SpaceX said: “All staff is safe and responsible” A message on XAnd claim that “there are no dangers for residents in surrounding communities.” The company gave no explanation for the explosion.
It is not immediately clear what impact this will have on the development of SpaceX of the Starship Rocket system. A recent advice Of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suggested that the tenth test flight could have already happened on June 29.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said In a message that is apparently related To the explosion that he regards it as: “Just a scratch”.
In the last few years, SpaceX has aggressively developed the 171-foot spaceship and the huge 232-foot super heavy booster that floats in space. The company started 2025 and said that this year would be a “transformational” for the program, and the FAA recently Raised the limit on the space schiplances in Texas from 5 to 25.
But Starship in particular has had a number of problems this year. The rocket exploded unexpectedly during his seventh test flight in January and then again in March. It failed again during his ninth test in May.
While the rocket came to his most recent flight in May than during the previous two tests, he still did not succeed in implementing the Dummy Starlink satellites that it was wearing on board-a crucial step in the company’s plan to use the mega-rocket to grow its space-based internet service.
Musk has sustained that SpaceX is on track to try to send a spaceship to Mars in 2026, giving it a “50/50” chance In a business update in May. The company also develops a larger “version 3” of the spaceship that, claimed Musk, could fly this year.
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