Mask's 'starship' crashed in mid-air, air traffic was disrupted

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SpaceX's giant Starship rocket has disintegrated in mid-air minutes after its latest test launch. Contact with the starship was lost eight and a half minutes after launch from Brownsville, Texas. The test launch took place on Thursday local time.

Thursday was the rocket's seventh test launch, Elon Musk's company officials said.

But due to some noise in the engine, it broke down during the space flight. But the super heavy booster managed to return to its launchpad as planned.

Al Jazeera reported that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that air traffic was temporarily suspended and rerouted around the area of possible spacecraft debris. According to FlightRadar24, at least 20 aircraft have changed their routes.

Meanwhile, on the same day, Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched a rocket into orbit for the first time. Elon's mission came just hours after the first flight of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket system. This started the commercial space race between the world's two richest people, which depended on building bigger and more powerful rockets.

SpaceX said in a post that it will continue to review data to better understand the root cause of the starship's collapse.

Success comes from what we learn from such trials. Today's event will help improve the reliability of our starships.”

Kate Tice, on behalf of SpaceX, said, 'Now we can only report that our rocket has been destroyed. We were excited about this experiment, but success was not guaranteed.

What is known about starships

The top of this starship was six and a half feet taller than the previous one.

Four minutes after launch, the rocket surface separated from the booster as planned. But a few minutes later, SpaceX communications manager Dan Huyott said during live streaming that communication with the starship had been lost.

It will take some time to understand what happened, he said. Starship had 10 artificial satellite models. The starship system was the size of a 37-story house. In 2025, it was the first test of a starship.

Source: BBC

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