All My SpaceXs Live in Texas …
In a blow to an endeavor contemporaneously triumphant and beset by growing-pains, SpaceX’s Starship program suffered an apparent explosion of the reusable space vehicle’s Super Heavy booster during tests at the company’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. By all accounts, a fire occurred while SpaceX engineers were testing the booster’s Raptor engines—all 33 of them. Regrettably, the fire spread, ultimately triggering an explosion of the booster assembly. Though little verifiable information is yet available, the incident is likely attributable to a malfunction in one or more of the rocket’s highly sophisticated, immensely powerful Raptor engines.
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