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Elon Musk’s Starship rocket has exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight, with footage showing streaks lighting up the sky. Footage shared to X shows the rocket, which launched from ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk shared an image of debris in a post and said, "entertainment is guaranteed!" While the Super Heavy aced its landing attempt, the Starship spacecraft, or upper stage ...

Elon Musk’s Starship prototype has broken up ... However, in an unexpected setback, SpaceX lost the upper portion of the Starship rocket, which exploded minutes after it blasted off.

Space X's seventh Starship test flight was 'destroyed ... The tower has caught the rocket!!' SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said via X as the spacecraft made the dramatic touchdown.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX suspects a fire ... with the Federal Aviation Administration. The Starship — the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket — had launched from the southern tip of Texas ...

A replacement has not been named. The mission on Thursday was SpaceX's seventh Starship test since 2023 in Musk's multibillion-dollar effort to build a rocket capable of ferrying humans and cargo ...

The rocket had lifted off at 16:37 local time (22:37 GMT) powered by the Super Heavy as planned after several delays due to unfavorable weather conditions. SpaceX set out in this new Starship test ...

Unverified footage shared on social media shows what appears to be the rocket breaking up in flames. Mr Musk's aerospace company, founded in California in 2002, had posted on X: "Starship ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX lost its 400-foot-tall Starship in space where it was destroyed after launching the rocket from Texas Thursday in its seventh test flight. The engines of the new and improved ...