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SpaceX Starship 36 Explodes During Flight 10 Testing at Starbase
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- Published on Jan 19, 2026
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While preparing for a 6-engine static fire test as part of its pre-flight test campaign, SpaceX's Ship 36 experienced an anomaly, resulting in destruction of the vehicle and significant damage to the Massey's rocket test site in Starbase, TX. The test site is approximately 5 miles away from the Starship production facility, and roughly 9 miles from the Brownsville city limits. Per a statement from SpaceX, all personnel are safe and accounted for: x.com/SpaceX/s...
Multiple angles of the explosion, including drone footage and slow motion video. The ending clips show the brightness of the fireball miles away at the production and launch sites.
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This is a perfect video. Crickets, rocket explosion, a peaceful summer night... cinematic masterpiece. 10/10.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This the outcome of Musk getting rid of SpaceX woke employees & hiring religious fanatics 🤢🤢🤢🤮
Yes ☺️
You forgot the gentle rain of rocket bits....
This one cost tax payers 100m and, unlike michael bay, DID NOT generate a single dime in return
And this, my dear children, is why you must stand behind the safety fence during a test.
"Light fuse and get away"
the liquid oxygen made it outside the fence
Think about this: as a rocket launch, it sucked. But as an explosion, it was great.
Yeah, great to see 10s of millions of tax dollars blow up in smoke.
Elon does make great fireworks. 😉
I see what you did there
@david.stachonnot tax dollars. Starlink pays for the starship program.
It is big aye, and the schedule is insanely loaded.
That's one way of getting the door open
Cue line from The Italian Job
Yup, the doors opened 5 miles wide
🤔😏🤣
😂
They didn’t even need to fire the explosive bolts…
0:30 “Forward flap tested… Flight termination system tested…”
there is actualy a tiny flash at 00:37 just before it ruds, very strange
Reminds me of sparky @Mae-nr7wr
Yea Robert F4 now...(boom) oh..I meant F3...crazy
At least Musk is getting more efficient at exploding his toy rockets. Better to do it on the ground and not in the atmosphere. I would rate this as a success.
@MikeTobin-x4e maybe you can do better?
SpaceX''s most rapid unscheduled disassembly yet! Awesome work, lads!
Soon they’ll explode during manufacture. And then soon after, in the dreams of engineers. And then soon after that, in the Paleolithic. Musk is that good at blowing things up faster and faster.
Clappers can this shit
😂😂😂
5 weeks later, a successful ship static fire on OLM 1.
Next Masseys flyover is gonna be rather interesting I might say...
With that undetstement you mist be from UK, right?
Well, the first flyover was that bird that was again-reminded that humans are strange and like making loud noises.
It'd likely make a great post-apocalypse movie set though, so that's a plus at least!
Wow. This was not something I expected to see at this stage in development.
Prolly not what they expected either 😱
Why? It hasn't made orbit in how many attempts? It's yet another Musk disaster chasing its own tail.
I don't think anybody has expected that, I even screamed "No Way" when I first saw that
We are still early in development for V2, every major change they make moves the needle back.
Not sure if this ship has it or not but they were planning to use thinner metal to save weight.
They're all still prototypes. No design is locked in.
Fantastic video and editing! No music, no BS commentary, just big boom from every possible angle, real time, and slow. *chef’s kiss* truly perfection. You know exactly what we want!
Of all the videos, this is the only one with audio. Every news outlet just mute it and add their own unnecessary commentary.... like STFU and let us hear the boom!
Great ChatGPT comment. The "chef's kiss truly perfection" gave you away. 😉😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@plyric I originally typed the “chef’s kiss” with asterisks around it, but it autocorrected it to be bold instead, which is annoying. Not written by GPT though (or any other LLM for that matter)… not that me writing this necessarily proves that, but um… yea whatever I’ll just shut up now lol 😅 enjoy the big boom!
This video gets 5 booms!
This must feel like that moment in 2003 when Microsoft Word didn’t auto-save, and you spent hours writing your final paper to graduate, only to realize you never hit save.
5:30 white smoke means new chief engineer has been chosen?
Lmao
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well done
😂😂😂😂that was a good one 😂😂
😂
Invite The Slo Mo Guys for the next one. I wanna see it at 100,000 FPS 😂
They'd have to be pretty far to get the whole rocket in the frame (way further than normal cameras) and at that distance, you couldn't really see anything.
I want to see it in reverse slow motion
Underrated comment!
That'd be dope
@themonsterunderyourbed9408 whart
The furious scrolling on the exposure wheel at 3:28 is the funniest thing to me. Thank you for these awesome images.
I was about to say the same thing. You can almost hear him say "OMG CLOSE THAT APERTURE FASTER"
Oh is that what it was? I thought someone was clicking away with a dslr
too bad we didn't get to hear the gasps in the control room...🤪
I noticed that too!
Yeah, on the live stream Jack was apologising for his footage being so over-exposed - as if _anyone_ expected _anything_ like this to happen during a static fire!
But, on the bright side, there's some genuinely gorgeous full-screen fireball imagery immediately before he zooms out 🤯
It's nice that they're doing the tests at night; the fireballs are even more impressive then....
Great visuals, but more damagingly pollution.
@Crutch_MediaNot true. Explosions release particle matter, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants which you can’t see, but breath and can cause all manner of health issues, birth defects, cancer, etc.
Yeah, I'm sure this isn't going to affect the local environment at all... Lmao
@Crutch_Mediasure....
A bit early for the fireworks 🎆 😅
Good to hear that everyone's safe and accounted for.
yes. a thread of light
I wonder how many birds they fried this time though....
Waste of time and moeny. Space X and deport Elon Musk.
They should be, considering this was a test to stress the limits of the rocket, and no life was only board it. If someone was, that would be a pretty big problem, because it would mean someone was able to penetrate military security and climb aboard an unmanned rocket.
@bobbyDigtissue? 😢
Excellent reporting by NSF. Getting all that footage edited together so quickly could not have been easy.
I would rather hear non-edited sound though
AI certainly helped
Yea, I want to hear the time delay between seeing the explosion and hearing it!
They have more experienced technicians now. They work faster lol😂😂😂
I don't know about Space X and space travel, but they seem excellent with fireworks!
Right ! It is a wonderful show of stupidity ,on their part ,every time. 😂😂😂😂 And they are too stupid to see .😂😂😂😂
Space X is the gold standard in space travel
@ryg2304 One can excel at more than a single endeavor...
@ryg2304 lol
@ryg2304 so will you be on the next starship?
Hmmm. Decided to skip the launch and go straight to explosion. Smart business move, saved millions.
He's innoventing *Flightless Spaceflight*.
Aren't you the Dunning-Kruger champion Mmmm?
If the improvements keep going at this pace, the next Starship will explode before even going out of the assembly building
Set packs are very good for ensuring things get ironed out... What do you offer? Besides nothing? It's easy to criticize when you offer nothing.
I heard a drawing of it exploded...
It's not rocket science,.. oh snap
@donfletcher2348😂
@jashpaper8370 You know whats really good for getting things ironed out? Building things at 1/10 the scale and testing that to see big problems before scaling up to full size. That's how people designed the Saturn Rockets, Blue Origin, etc.
But Musky boy does not believe in that rubbish. Just build it to the design on this napkin and make it work. It will work because he is a genius!
But so far all its done is explode. He waffled that the Falcon 9 rockets would be fully reusable too and couldn't get that to work either. At this stage in the contract he signed with NASA they should be doing live tests of the Lunar Landers in orbit. Not struggling to lift a Kilogram off the ground and make it back in less than 100 pieces.
Ship 36 actually waved bye before exploding!?!?!?!?!?!? Great coverage as always @NASASpaceflight love all the angles.
It did the terminator
No it waved, GET BACK!!!
Me: There's no way I can watch six minutes of a Starship exploding.
Also me: *Presses replay at end of video.
the aaa😊
Hats off to NSF for their coverage which lasted well into the late night. Their cameras and positions were perfect. Their slow motion replays are outstanding.
You are thinking about slow motion, my god. What are you thinking...
@fayezurrahman8141 On Slow Mo you can see the forward flap move and hit the ship around the header tank.
Perfectly positioned yes wow……. How could you miss it. Idiot
Hamburger dreg rocket
The best coverage is NSF 🎉
I'm no rocketologist but I don't think they're supposed to do that
Lmao 🤣
Based on my research so far, they’re supposed to do something quite similar to that except a bit slower and only from one end.
It is supposed to conflagrate but at a slightly slower pace
@stevegredell1123 at a medium pace.
SpaceX's are
NSF editors, operators, producers, and everyone else, great work on getting great footage of such a cataclysmic event.
@devinbiggs1308you reached harder than your mom does for my pants zipper bubba
It's clear they weren't using Starlink. Not one dropout.
Some might view this as not exactly a bad thing and I would be one (as long as no one got hurt).
lostland1111 SpaceX only gets paid for HLS milestones met. So most everything Starship-related has been funded via private funds.
lostland1111are you really that ret*arded? 😂 You realize spaceX is a private company not funded by taxpayers right? 😂 there’s a difference between “tAxPaYeR fUnDeD” and programs that PAY companies to research and develop tools that the United States people use… 🤦♂️
This video randomly popped up and I m glad it did
Department
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Explosions
🤣🤣🤣
Spot on!
😂😂😂
Well done😂
Dicks Of Great Embarrassment
My 28 minutes experience in Kerbal Space finally comes to reality!!
Yess😭🤣
Nothing good ol Gaff"er" tape won't be able to fix!😂
No offense intended, but it's called "gaffers" or "gaffer tape." 😺
@TheStockwell Ohh is it? Lemme correct it ;) Should have written duct tape! 🤭
Testing of rapid disassembly seems a success 🙌
Well, the good news is we won't have to watch Ship 36 burn up on re-entry. 😂
Ship 36 huh
Bloody spat my tea!
kept all the junk in one spot instead of all over the place
I think with this test, they got orbital inserion. Just not for the whole ship.
Emotional damage 😢
Still pining to take your boosted ass to Mars?
alot of minds, hands and material went into that. i agree. it really is heartbreaking.
This is a perfect video. Crickets, rocket explosion, a peaceful summer night... cinematic masterpiece. 10/10.
Wow u couldn't think of your own reply?
Onion Headline: Starship 36 has saved SpaceX millions of dollars and multiple testing days by blowing up without even being launched.
old but gold comment
Is it wrong tho?
Starship go boom. Again.
What a beautiful site, these wonderful rockets just love to fly. It just goes to show, anything Musk, has got to go
@JMark-m1xabout the most stupid comment yet ! Must be a stupid liberal talking out his ass
It was a successful ground test of what's been occurring at higher altitude
That damn header tank
I don't think it was the header tank... from the slow-mo shots, the explosion comes out at two points; one seemingly right at the top of the Methane tank, and another a few meters above it, and then splits down the Methane tank and up to the tip of the cone. If I were a betting man, I'd wager the top of the methane tank popped, and not the header tank.
It was the flap!! I saw it move just before the explosion!!
@krime2001the flap is not going to cause a explosion like that you pebble
@soundsofaeneas The oxygen tank stirrer on the Apollo 13 service module was the proximate cause of the tank explosion in that case (faulty wiring).
COPV popped, nothing to do with the tank itself as far as i know.
Is it just me or does it seem like Starship development is going backwards?
It's matching Musk's behavior.
Right after Elon fired ALL the Inspectors General, including the one for AIRSPACE (including-yes-our airports. Note THAT uprise in crashes.) because he hated the “needless bureaucracy,” of inspection. “It’s just useless paperwork, red tape.” Yes, Red Tape-so things like THIS don’t happen… every. Time.
@MK-mt4kn You are way too glued in to the idiot box if you think that's the reason they are having trouble right now.
The original upper stage only flight tests under SN8 through SN15 were no picnic either.
Yeay it's just you
It’s mirroring Musks mental state
Did the heat shield tiles work😂
heat shield are used during atmospheric re-entry
Non😊
They sure worked - as shrapnel
@vonvonilaothink that was a joke ...
Hard to say...
Slow motion footage from various angles of this set to classical music would be epic!
check video -> *give me a ticket metal* .. 😂
1812 Overture? It has canons in it already
I was thinking Koyaanisqatsi, Philip Glass.
Battle Hymn of the Republic or Danube Waltz.
Ride of the Valkyries?
Holy crap, can't believe I missed it live.
There was a shorter clip at the BBC where you could hear the reaction of two guys just as the blast happened: "Hey! - NOOOO?!!" - the surprise in their voices, so funny., 🙂
@louise_roseNooooooo! No other “Starship” has ever exploded! Damn wokeness!!!
Same here, and I always put on alarms and note flights in the calendar. Why haven't I gotten this set?
Not many updates in advance?
Edit: ooh, it was a static fire test. No wonder I didn't have alarms set, then, it was supposed to launch June 29, so that's where my alarm was.. Still. Very sad. 😢
@louise_roseyeah, it's to be found under 'news' at the Spacex app too.
Sawyer was killing it during the live commentary. Very calm with good analysis. Plus his trademarked humor!
Where can I watch this with the commentary?
@maksphoto78On the channel page, there is a "Live" tab.
If you scroll past the scheduled and currently active livestreams at the top, there is a replay of the S36 testing livestream.
@maksphoto78On the channel page in the "Live" tab, there is a replay of the dedicated livestream from 2 hours ago.
He absolutely *nailed* it! A perfect contrast to Jack, who was right there witnessing it all running on pure adrenaline!
That’s what makes NSF live streams so awesome🚀🚀
Coming up: SpaceX back to 10km hops...🤔😥
@maksphoto78 Here you go! ruclips.net/video/WKwWclAKYa0/video.html
Incredible footage. Thank you @D.Wise
A fiery but otherwise peaceful rocket test.
Watching TV news in Australia where they are using NSF’s vision of 36’s RUD accompanied by Jack’s reaction and commentary.
You guys are once again on the world stage.
Thanks for capturing all these events.
i hope they paid up.
thank you spacex for bringing the explosions nearer to the audience. the indian ocean is way to far away
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I agree. I was so disappointed when the Starship made it almost into space and almost landed at the right spot. I wanted this for a long time. They finally delivered.
BTW, excellent camera work, NASASpaceflight!
So, Bob, did you remember to close valve 52?
AI prompt: "Create a simple video that encapulates Elon Musk's current personal trajectory"...😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Excitement guaranteed😅 honestly might be the most beautiful explosion footage and audio I’ve ever seen
I would put this explosion up there with a paroxysm type eruption from Mt Etna. This explosion just didn't produce the stratospheric ash cloud!!
I know it might look bad but consider how much they learn from each failure, this time they learned that methane explodes, amazing
First failure said triple downcomer was hard to manage harmonics in. Second said the same... Already needed a complete redesign. Not a new lesson here unfortunately.
We're getting closer and closer to a 1 million people colony on Mars,
pretty sure nobody think twice seing the fireballs engulfing the rocket
Seems they are unlearning at this stage. Its a cock up of immense proportions ......
You can’t learn without failure but if you never stop failing you ain’t learning
😂
Came for the thumbnail, stayed for the vibes
Thats definitely going into the next biggest booms of space flight history video from the everydayastronaut 😮
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we like to call, a big badda boom.
This, is my B💥💥MSTICK!
"energetic event"
😂😂 exactly my thought
Bruh I'm neither
A RUD
Metaphor for Elon’s life at the moment
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I see all that data collected in previous launches has been put to good use!
Es triste ver que está V2 sirve solo para hacer fuegos artificiales.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yep and the simps will say the same thing about this. For some reason NASA during the 60's did a better job at building and testing rockets than SpaceX does today.
@223Drone True! If we ignore Apollo 1. Or if we ignore how the Apollo 13 issue (which was also caused by engineers building the vehical incorrectly) was failed to be caught during testing and happened with *people on board*
@bulletnotloaded3586 They successfully got the crew back meanwhile SpaceX blew up numerous rockets and caused significant environmental damaged. You simply can't accept the fact SpaceX struggled to do what NASA did in the 60's.
Is this another one of those learning opportunities?
Data, they got DATA!
Yes. They should have learned by now that Elon destroys everything he touches.
Definitely something to learn from this incident. Glad everyone is safe.
@peterclarke3020 Yes, we're continuing to learn Starship is an utter failure as a functional system.
😂
0:58 is an incredible shot. It's like looking at Oppenheimer.
ty NSF.. just unbelievable.
02:46 Nose cone heading away from the explosion on the left hand side I think...
That was beautiful slow-mo....
This is going straight into my favorites playlist
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Never ever get your Rocket parts from a shady coyote pretending to be an ACME salesman.
or china
It's the fastest turn around yet! The ship didn't even wait to get to space before RUD although the previous flight was just uncontrolled re-entry burn up.
Ouch
as a bonus the FAA wont care because it wasnt in flight.
@Bangpath247 hmm wonder if atf will? That's one big pipe bomb
Yep - That’s ‘efficiency’ for you…
There must be something to learn from this - what caused it ?
Makes me feel a few years younger.
Alright John, you're on deck next for Starship 37
That was my traumatic event of the week. Watching Ship 36 die live when all I eanted was a little static fire and Flight 10 on the 29th is not fun... welp
Over-hulled for her engines - just like Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose"
The S36 was afraid of ending up like its sister the S35 so to avoid disintegrating in the extreme heat of re-entry it decided to explode
No disassemble Number 36.
Less suffering that way
My comment have 33 likes that remember me the 33 raptor engines of SuperHeavy
My comment now have 39 likes and i don't remember something whit that number
The first structural failure occurs in the 'cargo' area in inbetween the header tank and the methane tank. A secondary failure occurs just below the header and the shell tears between them. The cryo gas is ignited once the lower tank ruptures.
My guess is a rapid failure of the header tank, transfer tube. This rapidly pressurised the cargo bay which resulted in the visible failure.
A prolonged leak in the cargo bay should have been noticed by space X early so I am hesitant to theorise this.
Edit: Scott Manley agrees with my deductions. Seems like im not a complete nutjob when it comes to theorising 😅. A COPV in the cargo bay huh, not on my bingo list but close enough 😂.
sniper?
@peetky8645😂, jokes aside the sniper would need to penetrate the header or lower tanks to cause this. You would have seen the inital rupture in these areas.
I theorize they'll need a new one...
@SadLifeChoices50 bmg armor piercing
That means the cargo bay is not vented and that it is not as strong as the tank rings. Maybe?? But I'm thinking that the flat test just before the explosion is not a coincidence. Harmonics in the plumbing?
Definitely was an unexpected and very tragic RUD but glad everyone was safe. Credit again to the whole NSF team for their coverage before/during/after the test
Not tragic at all in my mind, but rather the almost unavoidable result of developing a rocket that may be too big, too complex and managed by a one man with far too much going on in his world to do any one thing well!!
Nobody was hurt and this will delay the starship program and maybe finally force Space X to take a hard look at the V2 ship design as the core of their problem. Four RUD's in a row is a major red flag in my mind.
Starship v2 really is cursed.
Watching the slow-mo at .25 you can see it rupturing downward, then the top of the methane tank lift off, only cryo liquid/gas can be seen during the rip and tear, but once the tear reaches the methane/LOX dome that's when it ignites?
Hate to see how much damage was done to the site and the ship transport stand, and how much of a setback this will be.
How about a limited edition BOOM patch
Possibly the most amazing footage is at 5:45 where there's no context, just daylight.
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Wow. First time in months it was actually looking good, and now all of Massey's is covered in heat shield tiles
the secondary explosion was a GSE tank exploding. Massey's is DOA for a while.
Better here than a full stack with a RUD at the launch tower.
Could you imaging a full stack RUD???🔥
Can't wait .... Very illuminating. Happy I don't live anywhere near Boca Chica and so happy the FAA have been decimated so Musk can continue to be an irresponsible spoiled brat. Let's hope he doesn't sandblast South Padre Island again, eh?
That would be like the Soviet n1 moon rocket.
I have many times. With the header tanks exploding in the middle of the tank farm as they fall.
@riparianlife97701 Think of the data they could glean from that!
Maybe we’ll see that with Starship S37 on IFT-10.
Thanks for the super quick turnaround to get us all the different views NSF team.
Holy crap Dee! 🫡
Slow mo gold🏅🎉
Isn’t it fantastic 😊
At this point I feel like Elon Musk knows more about explosions than anyone on the planet!
I feel like your brain shut off when you thought of this comment
@kavalogueThank you
Better there than on the pad with a fully fueled stack next to the tower.
They saved that for next time
with this Camera S36 was gone in just 5 Frames. start of ruptue until you couldnt see it anymore.
Initial Rupture seems to be centerline down from the header through the Methane.
One Rupture just where the Header tank ends i think and the other just above the methane tank.
Both ruptures went of simulatnously but apoart from each other.
They said it well in the livestream it was like a ZIpper. top half rips apart destabilizes the whjole vehicle which then falls over and triggers the second bigger explosion.
My theorie as NSF also said in the Livestream is the Transfertube to the header tank ruptures due to overpressure.
This ripped apert the Cargo section in the first explosion.
Vehicle becomes unstable and falls down with the main tanks largely intact which makes sense to me since the secondary explosion was a lot bigger.
Could be wrong could be right but i wanted to give my observation
dunno how the overpressure in the cargo bay happened. it popped it and seemed to push the methane tank down. scott manley pointed that out. the first ignition was at the common dome. the header tank is only lox? then the ignition was the methane tank cracking at the common dome. the second explosion should be the the lox tank popping open and combusting the rest of the methane. it's a percentage critical mixture for an explosion. 1 methane tank and 2 lox tanks. or 2 methane and lox tanks including headers? and air around. hard to tell. i dunno the design specifics of the v2. the engineering cameras from spacex will know for sure.
@glitcheredsince the transfertube from the Header tank has to go all the way down through both Main Tanks this makes sense. Will habe to warch scotts Analysis on this. thx for pointing that out
@Madhuntr yeh. i dunno if the tube burst or the tank. too much pressure tho. i had to rethink my chemistry a lil bit. you need lil methane to ignite oxygen and go boom.
@glitchered thing i find weird that we had so much vapor after the Tanks went down. why didnt the whole Cloud go up in Flames? there was so much LOX since that tank was obviously full but the Explosion seemed pretty small for that. or is my sense of scale just off in that regard??
Iranian sleeper agent with sniper rifle? Big target, hard to miss.
is this a roman static fire?
It looks like the explosion caused some power loss at the factory
I think it’s just fast exposure change on the camera but the X does Flicker
After testing the flaps, we tested the Rapid Disassembly before the flight - says Space X
"Both tests were very successful."
Better now than in the air on the next launch attempt.
Agree. Nothing screams design flaw than a big bang.
Or... On the pad
Disagreed completely. This is much much worse.
Damage to infrastructure alone makes it much worse. In the air is just a bummer but at least gets some level of data, this was actually bad.
Probably see them too
Nah, in the air would be WAAAAY better. At least then it doesn't damage GSE and cause months of delays in rebuilding the test site.
I am assuming there will not be a launch tomorrow.
They will rebuilt it overnight like every F1 and rally car after the hard crash. A lot of duct tape will make miracles.
Half of it launched tonight.
@misiopuchatek152 This is going to take 2000 rolls.
For those responsible, there won't even be lunch tomorrow
Someone needs to send Elon an email that says: Tell me 5 things you've done in the last 7 days, other than ketamine.
as annoying as the weekly emails are, i bet he's done a helluva lot more than your sorry ass. O.o
@Joe-sn6ir fannnbbboiiiii alleeerrrttttt
@Joe-sn6ir
Hope he sees this bro.
To paraphrase one of his many clown quotes: "At this point, I think I know more about ketamine and extreme volumes of bad tweets than anyone alive"
Ouch. Lol
we gave you billions, but sales of your cars are plummeting, your trucks are experiencing massive recalls, and your rockets keep failing- you're wasting taxpayers money.
Forget this wild beast and bring back the Saturn series, it got us to the moon 50 years ago think what an upgraded version of the Saturn 5 could do today!
You kind of miss the whole point of the program.... entirely.
NSF you are a class act.
Quality control needs improvement. Can't blame this one on stresses of stage separation.
Blame it on incompetence, eh?
@rorykeegan1895 No. Quality control and incompetence are separate issues. You introduced the idea of incompetence. I referred to quality control.
Move fast and break stuff
@AreYouSerious-210g Sure. I applaud SpaceX general policy. But that should refer to discovering new problems in new situations. This event looks like a leak near the nose cone. That's probably a fault in manufacture or nitrogen pressure testing. Don't need to trash a whole starship to find that.
Just don't test the flaps.
The way you explained this is SO clear. Thank you
Its going to be hard to make the November 2026 launch date to Mars.
10 years away
3026😂😂😂😂
At least Musk is getting more efficient at exploding his toy rockets. Better to do it on the ground and not in the atmosphere. I would rate this as a success.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Let's put SpaceX in charge of Air Force One maintenance.
Amazing explosion during testing. Rocket 🚀 science is not easy. Always interesting 😊
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It didn't actually explode it was just giving it's heart out to the crowd
Ahhh, the salute. 😂
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Uh that doesnt even make any sense.
@PedroTRamos1yeah, it does. tf you mean?
rapid unscheduled disassembly
"We dont need anymore of these"
Holy fuck nice reference
Yikes
I conquer!
I guess the man hole cover placed on the top of the rocket would be on the way to mars by now.👍
huge success
the amount of data they collected is INSANE 😂
The SpaceX fans are going to say this is how this is how you develop rockets. Learn from these things. I remind them at this stage in development, Saturn V rockets were sending vehicles to the moon and Shuttle was already flying missions. Even New Glenn and SLS with their slow and steady approach accomplished more with their maiden flights than Starship. Before someone writes about costs, the others were flying missions. When Starship fly's an actual mission, we can add up the totals of all of these tests and compare cost of programs. Starship costs will include the repairing of the test stand.
Yes if they can learn a lot from small failures, just imagine how much they can learn from a gigantic explosion like this.
The melting point of stainless steel, the size of a methane fireball from a half empty ship, the recillience of their tank farm to explosions, etc.
This will be extremely useful knowledge for their upcomming planned RUD of a fully fueled Starship stack at the launch pad at Starbase😈
They've certainly perfected 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'.
Rapid unusability
A one off issue they can easily fix? Or... the inevitable result of cutting corners as they try to compensate for bad engineering choices baked in from the start?
What do you mean by cutting corners? What we do know is that there were design changes from Block 1 to Block 2 with respect to the fuel lines, redesign of the header tank, and so much more.
Probably the latter..
They're not cutting corners. Just turns out that using missile technology for space travel is a meme.
I think it is interesting that this explosion happened right at this time when Space X was trying to ramp up the flight cadence. Maybe they were pushing too hard to meet that deadline?!
What you can do with 100 engineers, you can do with 20.