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SpaceX Starship Rocket Destroyed in Test Setback
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- 00:00[CC may contain inaccuracies] The intention was not to catch up with the chopstick arms at this time, but to test a number of different landing profiles and then have it splashdown down in the Gulf. That didn’t happen. That exploded on re ignition for a final landing burn. The second part, the top section of the ship, the starship, also did not go to plan. There was no deployments of the dummy StarLink satellites. There was no relighting of the engines in space. And then the ship lost attitude control. We did hear from Elon Musk, as you say. He said, look, there were leaks that caused a loss of main tank pressure at the re-entry phase and that ship was also lost. So not a great day for X, a test flight and I’m not going to plan.
