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Time of India
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Iranian Supreme Leader Trashes Israeli-U.S. Threats; Urges Iranians To Not Fear 'ZIONIST AGGRESSORS'
SpaceX Starship Bursts Into Flames; Disastrous Test Caught On Cam | Watch Viral Video Elon Musk's SpaceX faced a major setback as its Starship 36 rocket exploded during a routine static fire test at Starbase, Texas. The powerful explosion, captured in viral videos, sent massive flames and smoke into the sky. This test was part of preparations for the highly anticipated Starship Flight 10, which was scheduled for later this month. Despite the explosion, SpaceX is known for learning from such failures and improving their designs. The incident has led to the likely delay of the planned launch, as the company now faces the task of recovering and refining its spacecraft for future missions.#spacex #explosion #elonmusk #starbase #texas #starshipflight10 357.1K views | 10 hours ago
Time of India
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- Time of India
'Nuclear Disaster': Putin's Huge Iran Warning To Israel; Russia Issues Chernobyl 2.0 Alarm
SpaceX Starship Bursts Into Flames; Disastrous Test Caught On Cam | Watch Viral Video Elon Musk's SpaceX faced a major setback as its Starship 36 rocket exploded during a routine static fire test at Starbase, Texas. The powerful explosion, captured in viral videos, sent massive flames and smoke into the sky. This test was part of preparations for the highly anticipated Starship Flight 10, which was scheduled for later this month. Despite the explosion, SpaceX is known for learning from such failures and improving their designs. The incident has led to the likely delay of the planned launch, as the company now faces the task of recovering and refining its spacecraft for future missions.#spacex #explosion #elonmusk #starbase #texas #starshipflight10 357.1K views | 10 hours ago
American Military News
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Video: SpaceX Starship explodes in Texas
SpaceX's Starship 36 experienced a 'catastrophic failure' and exploded Wednesday night during a 'routine' test at SpaceX's Starbase, which is located in Boca Chica, Texas. In a Thursday morning statement on X, formerly Twitter, SpaceX explained that the Starship 36 experienced a 'major anomaly' at roughly 11 p.m. (local time) on Wednesday as the spacecraft was preparing for its 10th flight test. Wednesday's explosion was featured on a Starbase livestream of the spacecraft's 10th flight test on YouTube. Sharing a video of the explosion in a post on social media, NASA Spaceflight wrote, 'ANOMALY! Just before Ship 36 was set to Static Fire, it blew up at SpaceX Masseys!' ANOMALY! Just before Ship 36 was set to Static Fire, it blew up at SpaceX Masseys! Live on X and YT: — NSF – (@NASASpaceflight) June 19, 2025 In SpaceX's statement on social media, the company said it maintained a 'safety clear area' around the launch site throughout Wednesday's operation. SpaceX also confirmed that all of the company's personnel were 'safe and accounted for.' 'Our Starbase team is actively working to safe the test site and the immediate surrounding area in conjunction with local officials,' SpaceX stated. 'There are no hazards to residents in surrounding communities, and we ask that individuals do not attempt to approach the area while safing operations continue.' READ MORE: Videos: Stranded astronauts to return to Earth after SpaceX crew arrives at ISS Local law enforcement officials also addressed the Starship 36 explosion. In a post on Facebook, the Cameron County Constable Precinct 1 wrote, 'At approximately 11:01:54 PM, during a routine static fire test at Starbase, Texas, SpaceX's Starship 36 suffered a catastrophic failure and exploded.' The Cameron County Constable Precinct 1 noted that as of early Thursday morning, no injuries had been reported and that emergency protocols were quickly implemented following the explosion. The Cameron County Constable Precinct 1 confirmed that an investigation was being launched to determine the cause of Wednesday's anomaly that led to the explosion. Commenting on Wednesday's Space Starship 36 explosion in a Thursday morning post, Elon Musk, SpaceX's CEO and the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency, tweeted, 'Just a scratch.'
Sinar Daily
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- Sinar Daily
SpaceX Starship explodes during routine test
The Starship 36 suffered "catastrophic failure and exploded" at the Starbase launch facility shortly after 11pm (0400 GMT Thursday). 19 Jun 2025 08:26pm (FILES) People take pictures of the rocket garden ahead of the SpaceX Starship flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas on April 16, 2023. - (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) HOUSTON - One of Elon Musk's SpaceX Starships exploded during a routine test in Texas late Wednesday, law enforcement officials said, in the latest setback to the billionaire's dream of turning humanity into an interplanetary species. The Starship 36 suffered "catastrophic failure and exploded" at the Starbase launch facility shortly after 11:00 pm (0400 GMT Thursday), a Facebook post by Cameron County authorities said. A video shared with the post showed the megarocket attached to the launch arm and then a flash and a towering, fiery explosion. Musk's Space X said the rocket was preparing for the tenth flight test when it "experienced a major anomaly while on a test stand at Starbase," without elaborating on the nature of the complication. "A safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted for," Space X said on social media. "There are no hazards to residents in surrounding communities, and we ask that individuals do not attempt to approach the area while safing operations continue." The Starship was not scheduled for launch on Wednesday evening when the explosion occurred during a "routine static fire test," according to the Cameron County authorities. During a static fire, part of the procedures preceding a launch, the Starship's Super Heavy booster would be anchored to the ground to prevent it from lifting off during the test-firing. Starbase, on the south Texas coast near the border with Mexico, is the headquarters for Musk's space project. (FILES) The SpaceX Starship sits on the launch pad ahead of its sixth flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Nov 17, 2024. - (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) Musk appeared to downplay the incident early on Thursday. "Just a scratch," he posted on his social media platform X, although without context it was unclear if he was referring to the fiery explosion of the rocket. - Megarocket - Standing 403 feet (123 metres) tall, Starship is the world's largest and most powerful rocket and is central to Musk's long-term vision of colonizing Mars. The Starship is billed as a fully reusable rocket with a payload capacity of up to 150 metric tons. The latest setback follows the explosion of a prototype Starship over the Indian Ocean in late May. The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built had lifted off from the Starbase facility on May 27, but the first-stage Super Heavy booster blew up instead of executing its planned splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The previous two outings also ended poorly, with the upper stage disintegrating over the Caribbean. However, the failures will likely do little to dent Musk's spacefaring ambitions. SpaceX has been betting that its "fail fast, learn fast" ethos, which has helped it dominate commercial spaceflight, will eventually pay off. The company has caught the Super Heavy booster in the launch tower's giant robotic arms three times -- a daring engineering feat it sees as key to rapid reusability and slashing costs. NASA is also increasingly reliant on SpaceX, whose Dragon spacecraft is vital for ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The Federal Aviation Administration approved an increase in annual Starship rocket launches from five to 25 in early May, stating that the increased frequency would not adversely affect the environment. The decision overruled objections from conservation groups that had warned the expansion could endanger sea turtles and shorebirds. - AFP More Like This
USA Today
3 hours ago
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Mega rocket explodes in Texas night sky, marks series of SpaceX setbacks
Mega rocket explodes in Texas night sky, marks series of SpaceX setbacks Show Caption Hide Caption SpaceX's Starship 36 explodes after 'major anomaly' SpaceX's Starship 36 exploded during a routine static fire test after experiencing a 'major anomaly.' In what the company called "a major anomaly" SpaceX's Starship exploded late Wednesday, June 18, shooting a massive fireball and giant debris into the Texas night sky. The explosion is not the first for SpaceX and comes on the heels of a string of set backs for the 400-foot rocket system this year. The company designs, builds and manufactures advanced rockets with the end goal of enabling people to live on other planets. The blast took place about 11 p.m. local time during testing for the mega rocket in Brownsville, a city in Cameron County on the state's southwest Gulf Coast, SpaceX announced on X. Starship, "experienced a major anomaly while on a test stand," the post reads. "Our Starbase team is actively working to safe the test site and the immediate surrounding area in conjunction with local officials." The company, founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, reported no injuries in the blast but asked people to avoid the area as a precaution. "There are no hazards to residents in surrounding communities," the post continues. USA TODAY has reached out to SpaceX for more information. What caused SpaceX Starship explosion? The official cause of the blast remained under investigation on June 19, 2025. 'Preliminary data suggests that a nitrogen COPV in the payload bay failed below its proof pressure,' Musk said in a post on X, referencing a composite overwrapped pressure vessel (a nitrogen gas storage unit). 'If further investigation confirms that this is what happened, it is the first time ever for this design." Just one day earlier, on June 17, Musk's company posted video on X of a "single-engine static fire demonstrating an in-space burn" as Starship prepared for its 10th flight test. Video captured of the incident shows the rocket appeared to experience least two explosions in quick succession. As Iran supreme leader warns America: Trump teases possible US strike When was the last Starship explosion? The last Starship explosion took place May 27, 2025, on its ninth flight when a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" occurred about an hour after blasting off. The vehicle successfully launched but contact with it was lost about 46 minutes into the flight as it spun out of control about halfway and then came apart. Its debris dropped into the Indian Ocean, SpaceX said. Flight tests also unexpectedly exploded in January and March 2025. During those incidents, vehicles used in the tests met their demise in dramatic explosions that sent cascades of fiery debris across the sky in Florida and across the Caribbean. The upper stage, the vehicle where astronauts and cargo would ride, separated minutes into its flight during the ascent. During three tests between June and November 2024, Starship flew halfway around the world before reentering Earth's atmosphere and landing safely as planned in the Indian Ocean. Bezos vs. Musk? How Amazon's Kuiper satellites look to compete with SpaceX, Starlink What is Starship? Musk's space exploration company is working for Starship to be a fully reusable transportation system, meaning both the rocket and vehicle can return to earth for additional missions. In the end, the goal is for Starship to carry cargo and humans far into the cosmos. Musk plans for Starship to reach Mars by the end of 2026, with hopes human expeditions aboard the vehicle would follow in the years after the first uncrewed spacecraft reaches the Red Planet. Contributing: Cheryl McCloud and Reuters Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@ and follow her on X @nataliealund.
