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[Video] SpaceX rocket explodes at Starbase during static fire testing (i.imgur.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/spaceflight

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/starships-rough-year-gets-worse-after-a-late-night-explosion-in-south-texas/

[–] clay_pidgin 3 points 13 hours ago

Yet another Starship failure. I know they're proud of iterating quickly, but surely they could spend a bit more engineering and QA time to save millions...