Washington: A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes ... was a “new generation ship with significant upgrades,” SpaceX said in a mission description prior to the test. It was due to make a ...

A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up ... was a "new generation ship with significant upgrades," SpaceX said in a mission description prior to the test. It was due to make a controlled splashdown ...

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A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up during a test ... an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity." ...

SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot said: "It was great to see a booster come down, but we are obviously bummed out about ship ... shows what appears to be the rocket breaking up in flames.

“But the boosters will come back and turn around to launch the next ship ... That task would require a truly massive rocket. “We are trying to build something that is capable of creating ...

Its executives insist that building ... rocket demonstrations are a testament to the intensifying commercial space industry. The primary objectives for SpaceX were stress-testing the new ship ...

Orange balls of light fly across the sky as debris from a SpaceX rocket ... ship with significant upgrades," SpaceX said in a mission description prior to the test. It was due to make a controlled ...

But some eight minutes into the flight, SpaceX lost contact with the Starship upper stage, known as Ship. It's currently ... flights into the next vehicle build. And there was a silver lining ...

The rocket system's upper stage appears ... we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity." ...

"We did lose all communications with the ship - that is essentially telling ... since 2023 in Musk's multibillion-dollar effort to build a rocket capable of ferrying humans and cargo to Mars ...

SpaceX plans to launch the seventh full-scale test flight of its massive Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket Thursday ...