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SpaceX Says Numerous Fires Broke Out on Board Its Starship Spacecraft During Most Recent Launch

Victor Tangermann

created: Feb. 24, 2025, 9:26 p.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.

<p>SpaceX has revealed that it had to intentionally self-destruct its latest Starship prototype last month following an oxygen leak, flashes, and "sustained fires." In an update posted to its website today, the Elon Musk-led space company admited that "not every test objective was completed," but vowed that "lessons learned will roll directly into future vehicles to make them more capable as Starship advances toward full and rapid reuse." On January 16, SpaceX's towering Starship prototype broke into countless pieces of space junk as it reentered the atmosphere over the Caribbean, showering the British islands of Turks and Caicos with debris. […]</p>

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