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The moment the Starship spacecraft exploded during a test flight on 20/4/2023. From the live broadcast of Spice X on YouTube

SPACEX's Starship spacecraft exploded four minutes after launch on its first full test flight

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Apparently the thrust of the first stage was not strong enough and the spacecraft was not able to separate from it. This is still an unmanned test flight and it seems that now the manned tests will move away * This is the fourth prototype to crash on launch
SpaceX's SN9 launcher crashes in Texas, 2/2/21, not far from the launch pad that is carrying the SN10 prototype of the Starship spacecraft. Screenshot from a SPACEX broadcast

A day after SPACEX announced a raffle for passengers on a spacecraft to Mars, another prototype exploded

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About five and a half minutes after the launch, the launcher's engines were ignited in order to move it to a vertical position and then align with the nose up to land on its bottom, however, as it was seen in the broadcast, the launcher overturned when its tip reached the ground at a huge speed and exploded about six and a half minutes after the launch
Screenshot from the moment the SN8 spacecraft crashed during a test flight in Texas, 9/12/2020. Photo: SPACEX

SpaceX's Starship 8 spacecraft crashed tonight during a test landing in Texas (video)

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SN8, a prototype of a spacecraft that is supposed to transport humans to Mars, took off and even circled in the air but did not succeed in the landing phase apparently due to low fuel pressure in the central tank, which caused it to reach the ground at too high a speed. The experiments will continue with the next spacecraft
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