Video: This was the explosion of the Starship ship 8 minutes after taking off

Video: This was the explosion of the Starship ship 8 minutes after taking off

The seventh test flight of the rocket Starship He ended up with lime and sand. On the one hand, the enormous propeller Super Heavy repeated the feat achieved by SpaceX on the fifth flight last October and landed back on the launch tower. However, the joy in starbase It didn’t last long. Eight and a half minutes after takeoff and when the second stage, the Starship, was at the beginning of its flight, all communication with it was lost. Starship had exploded, filling the sky with a spectacular rain of debris burning that forced the closure of air traffic in the area.

Immediately, social media was filled with videos recorded by users with the remains of the ship crossing the sky. One of the most striking is the recorded from the cockpit of an airplanerelatively close and at the altitude at which the wreckage of Starship was burning as it fell.

And it could also be recorded the moment of the Starship explosion8 and a half minutes after takeoff.

What had happened? This has been the worst performance of the Starship capsule since the rocket’s second test flight in November 2023to the disappointment of the hundreds of attendees, from a safe distance, at the rocket launch.

SpaceX Launch of Starship rocket in TexasMICHAEL GONZALEZEFE Agency

Elon Muskowner of SpaceX, commented on the social network an oxygen/fuel leak into the cavity above the ship’s engine firewall that was large enough to generate a pressure that exceeded the ventilation capacity. In addition to checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and probably increase the ventilation area. So far, nothing suggests postponing the next release beyond next month.”

SpaceX later added more information on its website and noted that “initial data indicates that it was developed a fire in the aft section of the shipwhich caused a rapid and unscheduled disassembly.”