SpaceEx rocket explodes over Texas

The giant Starship rocket of the SpaceX company exploded in the skies of Texas, United States, a few minutes after a successful takeoff for reasons yet to be determined, although the company’s engineers indicated that they accepted the test, which could be repeated in a few months.

The owner of SpaceX, the billionaire Elon Musk, reacted immediately on his Twitter account to congratulate his teams and encourage them to continue working on a project whose ultimate goal is to have a device that will take humans to the Moon and Mars.

“Congratulations team on an exciting test launch of Starship. I learned a lot for the next test launch in a few months,” Musk said.

“In a test like this, success comes from what we learn and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s confidence as SpaceX seeks to make life ‘multi-planetary’,” said the company, which despite the explosion considered positive what happened over the sky of its base called Starbase and located on the Texan coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Today was the second attempt by SpaceX to test the project of the large Starship rocket, designed to transport people to Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars, which is made up of a ship (Starship) and a propellant (Super Heavy Rocket ) fully integrated.

Starship had to withdraw from takeoff on  Monday after technicians discovered that a pressurization valve was frozen.

SpaceX noted that the team’s engineers “will continue to review the data and work towards our next flight test,” although, at the moment, there is no precise information on what happened to cause the rocket to explode unplanned.

Although in the first moments of takeoff, it seemed that everything was going according to plan, the rocket began to spin on its axis and instead of separating, as planned in the first stage of flight, the ship ended up exploding and without finish the 90 minute voyage before splashing down near Hawaii.

50/50 chance of failure 

Musk had previously made it clear that the test had a 50/50 chance of failing.

SpaceX’s own commentators, during the live broadcast, were enthusiastic despite the fact that not everything went as scheduled and the rocket exploded.

Today’s mission was scheduled for takeoff, a run, and splashdown of the first stage of the rocket, the Super Heavy, in the Gulf of Mexico, while the Starship was going to do it in Hawaii.

The ship should have separated, but Starship and Super Heavy still exploded together after spinning out of control for a few seconds before turning into a ball of fire.