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SpaceX Starship Prototype Successfully Lands, But Then Explodes – PCMag AU
This reusable rocket needs a little more work.
Starship successfully lands at SpaceX’s South Texas site (Photo via SpaceX/YouTube)
Yesterday, SpaceX almost successfully completed a high-altitude flight test of a Starship rocket. We say almost as the prototype test was going well and completed an almost perfect landing, but then it exploded.
Like siblings SN8 and SN9 that came before, SN10 was powered by three engines, each shutting down in sequence prior to reaching apogeeabout six miles in altitude. The vehicle performed as expected, reorienting…
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