A new month, a new explosion of a rocket of SpaceX. It is that the company owned by Elon Musk had a failed mission when a test of its Starship rocket lost minutes shortly after its launch, exploiting in the same way as in its January test, forcing the closure of four airports and illuminating the skies of Florida and the Caribbean.
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The huge rocket – the most powerful to date – took off at 6:30 pm local time (11:30 pm GMT) of the Boca Chica base in southern Texas, on the border of Mexico. The mission had planned to perform a suborbital trajectory for about an hour, before landing in the Indian Ocean.
The beginning of the test was successful, with the first stage of the rocket, the Super Heavy propeller, returning to the Starbase to be caught by the tweezers. The problems occurred with the upper stage of the space vehicle, which promptly lost contact with the base and exploded, raining its rubble by Florida and the Bahamas.
Videos hanging on social networks show the show left by the accident, a rain of fire similar to fireworks. Others, sarcastically, asked if Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), will investigate this waste of millions of dollars of the state money, being their company subsidized by the Government.
For its part, Musk did not refer directly to the explosion of the Starship during his eighth test, but described it with the euphemism of a “rapid and unforeseen disassembly.” The incident remembers the previous test, held on January 16, where the ship also exploded, watering debris in the Caribbean.
And as at that time, the rain of debris forced the closure of airports in Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach for an hour, while the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States demanded that the accident be investigated, the investigation that joins the one they already opened by the incident in January.