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SpaceX's latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but it lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.
#SpaceX #Starship #rocket #explosion #TurksandCaicos #News
cbc.ca/news/science/spacex-sta

#ElonMusk’s #SpaceX Starship #Rocket Breaksup & Disrupts Florida #Airports

But sure yeah put this #SpecialK Presidential Adviser in charge of #AirTrafficControl for airplanes & sure, throw in space #satellites too.

Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in #space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.

#USpol #Trump #idiocracy #DrugAbuse
nytimes.com/2025/03/06/science

The New York Times · SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports With Unsuccessful Test FlightBy Kenneth Chang
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@Tar_alcaran

Not everyone is convinced, no -

"However, sky watching veteran and reentry tracker, Jonathan McDowell who works at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Inside Outer Space that there is "no obvious space candidate. I am not convinced it's not from an airplane. Don’t see obvious evidence of reentry heating.""

space.com/space-exploration/sa

@planet4589

#kenya #space #rocket #debris ?

Space · Space debris crash in Kenya village believed to be from leftover rocket hardwareBy Leonard David

500 kg, 2.5 meter #object from #space crashes into Mukuku village in Makueni county, #Kenya -

It is claimed its sound could be heard from 200 km away.

Current identification says it is a #separation #ring from a #rocket

(and it does in fact resemble one) -

any experts here who recognize the make?

@space @planet4589
@esa
@nasa (more links in first comment)

nation.africa/kenya/news/objec