The Starship rocket, a critical component of SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle, had failed a third time in just months, according to rocket scientists at SpaceX. The launch was scheduled to take off early on Thursday from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, at around 6.30pm local time, but it went into a rapid spin and disassembled just minutes later. The debris and fragments reentered Earth’s atmosphere near the Turks and Caicos Islands. One of the passengers on board the plane saw the dramatic disintegration of the rocket and debris streaking across the night sky, whichxls.com reported as “more like a big firework show with big streamers of different debris going down.”
Bret Bostwick, a father with seven-year-old children watching from a catamaran near Ragged Island in the Bahamas at the time of the accident, described the explosion as a “bigger fire instead of a crash.” He shared misinformation stating that the rocket was simply detonating in a fiery cascade, but the engineers at Starship had detected the engine’s failure. Bostwick explained that the plane swerved again and stuck to the runway, delaying the departure of several flights by average of 45 minutes.
SpaceX noted that its safety team started addressing the contingency issues immediately when they first learned the rocket disassembled, and assured users that they would conduct a thorough investigation into the crash. The failure also delayed a ground stop at multiple Florida airports, which forced some of the affected planes to divert to other locations. In December, the FAA confirmed the disaster, adding another instance of Starship mishap and raising it with SpaceX for further investigation as it looks to repair theashed располож of the rocket and Booster’s failure.
In January, a similar failure occurred in the Caribbean, with half of the rocket’s booster pieces disintegrating as debris rained from the plane’s windows. SpaceX president Eric adapted the video to suggest that the rocket packing had issues, akin to the catastrophic launch at Volcano. While the Starship didn’t completely crash, no official flights went down, and the investigation would look into what happened to understand potential safety standards.
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