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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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
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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
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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
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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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Wow!
That was a biggie...
8 posted on
06/18/2025 11:00:06 PM PDT by
SuperLuminal
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9 posted on
06/18/2025 11:00:48 PM PDT by
texas booster
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13 posted on
06/18/2025 11:10:44 PM PDT by
mabarker1
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15 posted on
06/18/2025 11:20:25 PM PDT by
dadfly
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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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20 posted on
06/19/2025 12:04:39 AM PDT by
b4me
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25 posted on
06/19/2025 3:10:29 AM PDT by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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27 posted on
06/19/2025 5:05:47 AM PDT by
sasquatch
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That’s the stage that usually blows up in space. Now that they have figured out how to make it fail on Earth, they can go about fixing whatever the problem is...
31 posted on
06/19/2025 5:47:54 AM PDT by
farmguy
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Block 2 is cursed. On to Block 3.
32 posted on
06/19/2025 5:53:00 AM PDT by
BikerJoe
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The explosion began NOWHERE NEAR the engines.
Looks like sabotage to me.
[tin hat off]
33 posted on
06/19/2025 6:20:18 AM PDT by
logi_cal869
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Looks like one of the old Russian explosions.
34 posted on
06/19/2025 6:28:00 AM PDT by
Sequoyah101
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