Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes at the end of the launch test

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes at the end of the launch test

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX recently launched and landed a third starship test vehicle, the SN10, but shortly after returning to the ground the spacecraft exploded in a fireball. Musk says the ship will be safe for human transport in 2023.

Interesting Engineering reports that SpaceX successfully launched and landed a third starship test vehicle this week at the company’s facilities in Boca Chica, Texas. The vehicle, called SN10, took off at around 6:14 pm EST yesterday and landed again at 6:21 pm EST.

But when the ship landed, viewers noticed that it was tilted to one side and small fires were visible inside, leading some commentators to wonder if it would fall. Ten minutes later, the ship burst into flames.

Currently, the cause of the explosion is believed to be a methane leak. At around 10:39:05 in the video below, the ship can be seen exploding in a fireball.

Despite SpaceX’s long history of exploding rockets, some still believe they will be able to transport humans around the moon in just a few years. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa recently published an update on the “dearMoon” mission; the starship’s planned maiden voyage to the moon with Maezawa as the first passenger to buy a ticket.

On Tuesday, he announced the opening of a competition for eight “ordinary people” to join him on the Ship for a trip around the moon that would see humans leaving Earth’s low orbit for the first time since the Apollo program.

In a video announcing the competition, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated, “I am very confident that we will have reached orbit many times with Starship before 2023 and that it will be safe enough for human transport in 2023. It looks like a lot promising. “

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