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Following its spectacular explosion just a few days ago. on thursday, spacexs starship the most powerful rocket ever built, lifted off from a south texas launchpad to cheers, but then just minutes into flight, the massive starship exploded in midair after it was unable to separate from its powerful booster. the stunning explosion lit up the sky and sent debris in all directions over the gulf of mexico. and with me right now to talk about this is adam frank . hes a professor of astrophysics at th...

And you know the philosophy of build test, you know, find out what the issues are modifying test again. thats what gets you going more quickly. and it seems that the failure comes down to the engines. correct what could spacex do differently in this next text test flight to fix this? cant i assume theyre going to go back to the drawing board here to some extent. well the engines. the issue was that not all 33 engines were burning . and so we im not sure we havent seen any announcement yet whethe...

Is to land people on the moon in a joint mission with nasa and then go to mars. it is radically different from other rockets. this is the starship launch system. it stands 120 metres tall, thats nearly 400 feet. it has two main parts. at the bottom is the superheavy booster which has a huge number of engines, 33 of them. above this is a starship spacecraft. this can carry cargo or crew. spacex says up to 100 people. whats unique is both components will be fully reusable. explosions at spacex are...

>> reporter: it was all systems go as the most powerful rocket ever blasted off from its texas launchpad. staff was cheering the spa spacexs starship. elon musks mentor into the cosmos. but four minutes in the 400-foot rocket exploded. spacex tweeting as if the flight test was not exciting enough, starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembling before stage separation. spacex remains optimistic despite the short flight also tweeting, the test like this, success comes from what we learn an...

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The launch pad. so we are, as you mentioned that window opens up about 8 30 central time 9 30 eastern, and so far everything is on track. but remember, everything was on track on monday about this time it was about six minutes or so before the scheduled launch that the launch was scrubbed because of a pressurization valves. that had frozen somewhere in that rocket system. we havent got much clearer indication of what exactly happened there over the last few days, but we were told spacex official...

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Happening in the skies above texas because we understand that spacexs starship —— starship, the worlds biggest rocket, hasjust starship —— starship, the worlds biggest rocket, has just exploded during the test flight and crashed into the sea. we will bring you more on that here on bbc news. the very latest from boca chica in texas were here we have been reporting on the biggest ever rocket to launch into space. the take—off was successful, we could see that, but the news coming into us...