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Space X Starship explosion
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Posted on 06/18/2025 10:34:36 PM PDT by DHerion

Starship explodes during static engine test


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: exploded; multiplenicks; spacex; starship
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It appears Starship exploded in spectacular fashion during a static fire test.
1 posted on 06/18/2025 10:34:36 PM PDT by DHerion
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To: DHerion

Spectacular rud, watching nasaspaceflight.com youtube live stream
A flap test then boom. Fire is still burning


2 posted on 06/18/2025 10:37:17 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: DHerion

We’ll have to take your word for it—there’s no link.


3 posted on 06/18/2025 10:38:50 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: DHerion

More from Farm Film Report:
Big Jim McBob: She blowed up good.
Billy Sol Hurok: Blowed up real good!
Big Jim: Blowed up better’n Meryl Streep, yep.
Billy Sol: Got that right.


4 posted on 06/18/2025 10:40:51 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: DHerion

Sabotage until proven otherwise.


5 posted on 06/18/2025 10:45:11 PM PDT by balch3
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I’m starting to think that myself. It was too good for too long to suddenly get so bad.


6 posted on 06/18/2025 10:53:09 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: markman46

That’s the best site to watch if you like rockets


7 posted on 06/18/2025 10:54:27 PM PDT by digger48 (Mp)
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To: DHerion

Wow!
That was a biggie...


8 posted on 06/18/2025 11:00:06 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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BREAKING NEWS: Starship 36 EXPLODES by Ellie in Space
9 posted on 06/18/2025 11:00:48 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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live feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKwWclAKYa0

replay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbRmKnvx2Pg


10 posted on 06/18/2025 11:07:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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That’s great... the replay link is just some YTuber blabbing about the event over some old ‘footage’.


11 posted on 06/18/2025 11:08:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Here’s a clip:

https://nasawatch.com/commercialization/spacex-ship-36-just-blew-up/


12 posted on 06/18/2025 11:10:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DHerion; Chode; Salamander; Carriage Hill; SkyDancer; Lockbox; MtnClimber; Equine1952; ...
STARSHIP 36 Static Test Explosion at Texas Facility.

13 posted on 06/18/2025 11:10:44 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!! )
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I should not watched it twice before I Posted.


14 posted on 06/18/2025 11:12:29 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!! )
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To: DHerion

bookmark.


15 posted on 06/18/2025 11:20:25 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: DHerion
Just a bit more information, the explosion wasn't at the SpaceX launch pad, it was at their testing location a couple miles away (they do the tests there for this very reason so they don't lose the entire launch complex if things go south.)

While it will be a setback as it looks like the test facility sustained major damage which will likely put any testing on hold for weeks or months, it could have been worse.

16 posted on 06/18/2025 11:23:44 PM PDT by apillar
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To: SunkenCiv

Yeah, but the replay has better “detail” of the poof. Whew!


17 posted on 06/18/2025 11:28:37 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: markman46

I love NASA acronyms. RUD= “Rapid Unplanned/Unscheduled Disassembly”.

CC


18 posted on 06/18/2025 11:32:06 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Pedisequus parasiticus es popularium!)
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To: Paul R.

Wasn’t there a bolt of lightning seen in the replay?


19 posted on 06/18/2025 11:43:08 PM PDT by Does so ("Trump said today, "I'm with Ukraine". You?.....🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat... ∅ one ™ ¿ ¡ ☞≣ ½¼vedv)
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To: DHerion

Static will do that.


20 posted on 06/19/2025 12:04:39 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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