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'We have lost the data': SpaceX's unmanned rocket explodes minutes after lift-off
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-19/spacex-test-flight-rocket-launch/103123150
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The two-stage rocket ship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, blasted off from the Elon Musk-owned company’s Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in Texas.
The US Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees commercial launch sites, confirmed a mishap occurred which “resulted in a loss of the vehicle,” adding no injuries or property damage have been reported.
A fully successful test would have marked a key step toward achieving SpaceX’s ambition producing a large, multi-purpose, spacecraft capable of sending people and cargo back to the moon later this decade for NASA, and ultimately to Mars.
SpaceX’s worker safety culture underpinning its speedy development ethos is facing scrutiny by lawmakers after a Reuters investigation documented hundreds of injuries at the rocket company’s US manufacturing and launch sites.
NASA chief Bill Nelson, who has made competition with China a core need for speed in Artemis, said the latest Starship test was an “opportunity to learn — then fly again.”
Jaret Matthews, chief executive of lunar rover startup Astrolab that has booked space on a future Starship flight, toured SpaceX’s Starbase site earlier this year.
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