Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames

The front fell off.

the explosion, which took place at its Boca Chica Starbase facilities

The raptor testing stand at McGregor experienced an anomaly

Well, which is it? I'm going to trust NASASpaceflight over this article and go with it was a McGregor. No where near Starbase. And that means it will likely have no effect on IFT4 as this article says.

edit: Adding to this, the author of this article has no idea what they are talking about.

The Raptor engines that are currently undergoing testing are SpaceX’s Raptor 2 engines

So clearly nothing to do with IFT4, as Ship 29 and Booster 11 are already outfitted with their engines, non of which are Raptor 2s.

On its last flight test, IFT-3, Starship finally reached orbital velocity and it soared around Earth before crashing down into the Indian Ocean. On the next flight, SpaceX aims to perform a reentry burn, allowing Starship to perform a soft landing in the ocean.

IFT3 burned up on reentry, maybe parts of it made it to the ocean, but it was not crashing into the ocean that was the problem. IFT4 does not plan on doing a reentry burn. No one does a reentry burn from orbit. Starship uses a heat shield like every other orbital space craft. They are planning to attempt a landing burn, that is probably what they are talking about.

Okay? It was on a test stand. That's what test stands are for. Isn't stuff like this almost a weekly occurrence for them?

Remember when the FAA investigated SpaceX's violation of it's launch license over them ignoring warnings of worsening shockwave damage after their botched SN8 landing?

Pepperidge Farms Remembers.

Good lord, everyone please learn a tiny bit about spacex and the state of the space industry instead of letting your (justified) hatred of Elon do the typing.

Does anyone else think the thumbnail looks like a llama with laser eyes?

A few years ago (already) I would have been sad and shocked. Now I don't give a shit about SpaceTwitter. That douchebag managed to kill all the interest I had for space exploration, a topic I was passionate about for most of my life. He really is that kind of killjoy.

NASA successfully launched Artemis 1 first try.

Maybe someone called it cisgendered.

Bruh its a TEST STAND TEST STAND this is not the Frist time a engine exploded on a test stand raptor engines in their development phase are supposed to explode. Elon musk has said if something doesn't explode then you did something wrong

Hope everyone was okay, the article doesn’t talk about injuries.

Can someone please cue up the Boeing hit men?

Imagine the equivalent happening in your head cuz his shit brain implant went sideways

Hope nobody more valuable than their dumb CEO is injured.

Fuck Musk.

Fuck this stupid company. No more federal funding for SpaceX.

Oof

So maybe working your engineers 24 hours a day isn't a great idea?

Word on the street is that Starship was going to blow the whistle on Boeing.

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It's just part of the process guys

maybe someone left their Tesla there

I think it's a rocket engine on fire guys!

Do we have a shot of SpaceX employees cheering and clapping?

I kinda got used to seeing happy faces after a catastrophic failure.

Funny how elon will be one of the main reasons the US won't set a base on mars before china

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently announced that Starship’s fourth integrated flight test, IFT-4, could be just days away.

He should really stop predicting things.

hurriedly scans article

Was Elmo on it??

. . . Dammit.

Seriously how are space launches a priority right now when we are facing global ecological collapse

Question: what the fuck is Starship trying to accomplish over Falcon or Falcon Heavy? It seems like the design is a major regression in every imaginable way and its shimmering body screams another rushed, ugly EM pet project that's an expensive boondoggle like his ketamine fueled AutoCAD nightmare on wheels.

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