SpaceX pops Starship tank on purpose in explosive pressure test – Space.com

SpaceX just popped another Starship
test tank.
The Starship SN7.1 tank was destroyed on purpose Tuesday night (Sept. 22) at SpaceX’s South Texas facilities, during a pressure test designed to take the stainless-steel hardware to its bursting point. 
SpaceX has performed several other such tests, including one this past June that blew the top off the SN7 tank
. Such trials inform future iterations of Starship, the 100-passenger spacecraft Elon Musk’s company is developing to get people to Ma…

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