Name: First test flight: Starship rocket explodes four minutes after launch
Uploaded: 2023-04-20
Duration: 3 min 1 s

First test flight: Starship rocket explodes four minutes after launch

faz · April 20, 2023 · 3:01 · English · Launch

Video from the channel faz about Starship, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:01. Language: English. Video type: Launch.

Excerpt from the broadcast of Starship's first integrated test flight, published by the German newspaper FAZ with SpaceX's original English commentary.

It shows the liftoff of the Super Heavy and Starship stack, onboard views of the Raptor engines, and the announcement that, after separation, the booster would return to come down in the gulf. After 100 seconds of flight, the stack begins the pre-separation turn, but keeps rotating without the stages ever separating.

The commentators acknowledge that the situation is not the one planned and note that everything achieved after leaving the tower was an added success. According to the title, the vehicle exploded about four minutes after liftoff.

First test flight: Starship rocket explodes four minutes after launch

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