The upper stage of Spacex Starship exploded in a stunning fire while increasing the expected engine test at the Starbase Manufacturing facility in Texas late on Wednesday, which destroys the missile in what appears to be a large setback for the high heavy stars that Elon Musk says is important for the future of the company.
A video clip from Labpadre, a company that monitors SpaceX activities in Starbase, showed a jacket that suddenly exploded in a huge gunfire after 11 pm CDT, 10 to 15 minutes before the expected engine test launched, which led to the shooting of the burning debris in the sky overnight from an expected fire ball that overwhelms the test position.
The upper stage of Spacex Starship detonated late from June 18, 2025 at the Spacex Starbase facility for manufacturing on the coast of the Gulf of Texas. / Credit: Labpadre via the story
The video showed two main explosions, the first near the missile nose that followed after a moment after the flame and debris on the left side of the spacecraft. The test situation in a reckless fire ball has disappeared, which rose to the night sky, such as the bomb explosion.
The championship championship is filled with a full load of liquid oxygen and a partial load of high -energy methane fuel when bombings occur. After ninety minutes of the initial explosion, the fires seemed to be burning from the scope of control in what is known as the Massey Test site, where the tests of the refrigerated tests and the shooting tests are performed.
“On Wednesday, June 18 at about 11 pm, Starchiban witnessed preparing for the tenth airline test, a great homosexuality during the Starbase test,” Sbeesx said at the tenth flight test. A statement on the social media platform x. “A clear safety area has been preserved around the site throughout the process and all employees are safe and are calculated. Our Starbase is actively working on securing the test site and the surrounding area directly in conjunction with local officials.
“There are no risks to the population in the surrounding societies, and we ask individuals who do not try to approach the region.”
The effect of the explosion on the test infrastructure of the test site was not instantly known. Spacex has a history of relatively rapid recovery of failures or setbacks, but this accident, along with almost destroying the championship championship, may have caused great damage to the stars infrastructure. In any case, the next test trip will be delayed indefinitely.
SPAXX was expected to launch the 36th ship, immediately at the top of a very large supporter at the end of the month in the tenth non -missing test battle. Hotfire tests are a natural introduction to actual trips, allowing engineers to verify promotions and general performance before adhering to them.
Spacex has launched nine high heavy stars test trips since April 2023. The first three trips ended with explosions or separation that destroyed both phases.
Fifth and Fifth flights succeeded in the test in part, but two of the latest three -flight flights ended with the explosions of the stars before the spacecraft reached its planned filter path. The third and other trip on May 27 reached its planned path, but it went out of control and separated while entering the atmosphere.
NASA relies on the giant missile to launch the star variable carrying astronauts to a landing near the southern pole of the moon in the next three or thirty.
For HLS-Carses, Spacex will need to launch 10 to 20 high heavy stars to refuel in orbit in low orbit before he can go to the moon to wait for astronauts on the Orion capsule designed from Lockheed Martin.
Given the complexity of architecture, the need to launch many high heavy stars, the independent transmission of superior colds and new technology to maintain the cooled liquid methane and oxygen from warm up and boiling in space, and will make failure like Wednesday the entire time schedule more difficult.
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