The Starship top part was well away before the bottom exploded.
The top went almost to the scheduled engine cutoff before the safeties exploded it.
Thanks for that - just found a launch vid on YT.
I see the massive separation you mentioned.
I’d imagine there must’ve been a lot of fuel remaining in the booster for that catastrophic explosion.
Looks like they got all the booster engines firing this time.
Will be really interesting to find out what made Starship go BOOM, but it got 7 minutes downrange prior!
The bottom apparently exploded when trying to reignite its engines for reentry, well after separating from Starship.
It might have had something to do with the “hot separation” (ignition of Starship engines before separating, to force separation)