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SpaceX Starship ends test flight in fiery splashdown
Original: Watch: Starship splashdown ends in fireball https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c6j9xkdvrd94o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rs
SpaceX's Starship rocket ended its splashdown in a fireball, footage shows. The enormous spacecraft, developed for missions to the Moon and Mars, broke apart as it came down at the end of a test flight. The dramatic images of the vehicle's fiery demise are drawing wide attention, with observers weighing the setback against SpaceX's iterative approach to rocket development, where failures during tests are treated as a source of data.
Why now: Dramatic footage of Starship's fiery splashdown is circulating as SpaceX's test flights draw broad public interest.
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- Watch: Starship splashdown ends in fireball https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c6j9xkdvrd94o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss # Space # Exploration # Technology · bbc_news@robot.villas · 3
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