Mishap Causes SpaceX to Reexamine Starship’s Upper Stage Written 23 January 2025

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A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded shortly after launching on its seventh test flight, Jan. 16, 2025. | Credit: Brut India; YouTube; framegrab

Aviation Week reports SpaceX's “effort to demonstrate payload deployment, land its upper stage and potentially achieve spaceship-to-spaceship fuel transfer this year had an inauspicious start when the Starship system suffered a setback during the Jan. 16 flight. Minutes after launch, the Block 2 upper stage broke up when a fire developed in the aft section.”
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A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded shortly after launching on its seventh test flight.
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