SpaceX Test Rocket Blows Up over TexasDavenport, Christian
Speaking to reporters ahead of the Cape Canaveral launch, he said: "It’ll be a really huge downer if it blows up. I would consider it a win if it just clears the pad and doesn’t blow the pad to smithereens. That’s four million pounds of TNT equivalent so there’s probably not ...
SpaceX stresses that the loss of the rocket does not constitute a failure of the mission. The objective of the first flight was for the fully assembled rocket, which is larger than the Saturn V, to clear the launch pad. Everything after that was regarded as a bonus. Today's successful ...
SpaceX was conducting a test of its first assembled Starship rocket on Wednesday in Texas when immense pressure burst the tank at the top of the spacecraft, sending pieces flying. “The purpose of today’s test was to pressurize systems to the max, so the outcome was not completely unexpect...
The Rocket “It’s so mind-blowing. It blows my mind, and I see it every week.” Elon’s pumped. And when you learn about the big fucking rocket he’s building, you’ll understand why. First, let’s absorb the challenge at hand. It’s often said that space is hard. To this da...
And if something blows up in the middle of an empty field, it can expand outward in all directions but down:6 A rocket engine creates an explosion that wants to do the same thing—but the engine, like the balloon, won’t let the force move outward in any direction except one. And ...
A SpaceX rocket launch was aborted after countdown finished Sunday at Kennedy Space Center. Although some of the Falcon 9's rockets had already ignited, a power issue triggered an auto abort, the company said. MORE:SpaceX blows up a Falcon 9 rocket as part of crucial safety test ...
Known in the spaceflight world as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" or RUD, this type of explosion, while spectacular, is fairly common for SpaceX as it throws stuff at the proverbial wall and see what sticks — or, in this case, blows up. Paul RUD Indeed, while a SpaceX blast occurred...
What happens if the rocket blows up? As Elon Musksaidhimself at a conference in 2017: "Every time you fire a rocket engine, there is a probability that something might go wrong." This probability is increased when a powerful, new rocket is being tested for the first time -- especially ...
“This is the way SpaceX goes about. They test this stuff. They run it hard. Sometimes it blows up,” he said. 10:11 p.m. 0:52:41, April 20, 2023 Musk: SpaceX "learned a lot for next test launch" SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk tweeted after the uncrewed rocket Starship...