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Spacex is conducting a fixed fire test with the top stage of the Statship championship on May 12, 2025, before the ninth test in Starship. The upper stage on flight 10 on June 18, 2025 exploded on a test platform, a short period before a similar test. | Credit: Spacex
The latest vehicle in Spacex has just rose in smoke.
The company was testing a championship The higher stage at Starbase in South Texas on Wednesday evening (June 18), to prepare for the next tenth flying test for Megarock.
But there is a very mistake Video captured by Nasaspaceflight.comThe car exploded, and a huge fiery ball was sent to the dark sky of Texas.
Spacex Acknowledge the incident in X Post early Thursday morning (June 19), noting that it occurred around 11 pm local time (midnight EST and 0400 GMT on June 19).
Spacex added in the post: “A clear safety area has been maintained around the site throughout the process and all employees are safe and they are calculated.” “Our Starbase is actively securing the test site and the direct area in conjunction with local officials. There are no risks to the population in the surrounding societies, and we ask that individuals do not try to approach the area as safety operations are continuing.”
Spacex develops Starship, which is the largest and strongest missile that has ever built Helping humanity to colonize MarsAmong the other ambitious exploration tasks.
The car consists of two elements, both of which are designed to be fully and quickly reusable-a supporter of the first stage called Super Heavy and 171 feet (52 meters) of spacecraft in the upper stage known as Starship, or simply charging.
The ship that exploded on Wednesday night, on a test position at Starbase’s Massey (not the orbital launch mountain, from which the takeoff in the central vehicle occurred). According to Nasaspaceflight, who closely monitors oral activity in Starbase, anomalies occurred before the ship was appointed for a fixed test.
Fixed fires are common predecessors, as the missile engines are briefly ignited while the car remains installed on the floor. Spacex had already performed a Fixed fire with this shipAlthough this experience included only one of its Raptor engines; This test may be aimed at launching all six.
Spacex also also hired Flight 10 Suize Booster, successfully I ignite every 33 Raptors.
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Wednesday night explosion continued a series of setbacks for the higher stages of the Starship Championship. The ship collapsed on the last three stars test trips, which were launched in January, March and May this year.
on Flight 7 Journey 8, “Uncredated Decompression” occurred less than 10 minutes after taking off. The ship was greatly shaved Flight 9; Spacex lost contact with the car after about 46 minutes of takeoff, and the pieces are likely to settle on the bottom of the Indian Sea.
Ultra -performance performance was better. On Flight 7 and Flight 8, for example, the supporter returned to Starbase after being launched to get a dramatic armed through the Armstick Tower. Flight 7 SUPER Heavy flew again on the 9th flight, and got a large milestone to reuse for NATSHIP. (Spacex did not try to restore the supporter on flight 9, and it was separated from that because it came for the planned “Splashdown” in the Gulf of Mexico.)
Spacex is still looking at what happened on flight 9, an investigation supervised by the US Federal Aviation Administration. Therefore, there was not yet the date of the official target of the StarsHip 10 championship trip – and if there is, it will have to review it now after the events of Wednesday night.
