Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket explodes after launch  – BBC News

amazing views here coming to us from the foreign Texas starbase going through the period of maximum aerodynamic pressure as speed increases the depth of the atmosphere is decreasing decreasing the stress on the vehicle to call the side now we continue to see the first stage as we head down reach 100 seconds of flight our next main activity at the houston tracking station of the first stage now acquiring the vehicle to a fixed point we will get the separation of

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and super heavy and the ignition of the

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engines when Starship breaks up we fire up six engines in the staggered sequence if all goes well those six engines will burn for almost six and a half minutes onboard view from Starship and interviews of the Raptor engines on the second stage as we prepare for the break up now , after safe separation, the first stage will turn over and begin a rollback maneuver to land in the Gulf continue to fly two minutes and 40 seconds prepare for main engine cutoff beginning roll for stage separation stage separation foreign where Starship should separate from the super heavy booster yes Kate at this point it looks like we saw the start of the flip but obviously we are seeing from the ground cameras the entire Starship stack continues to rotate we should have had Separation by now obviously , this does not seem to be a nominal situation, yes, it seems to be spinning, but I am. i want to remind everyone that after clearing the tower was the icing on the cake maiden integrated test flight deep ER and