Musk has billed Starship as crucial to SpaceX s interplanetary exploration goals as well as its more near-term launch business, with commercial satellites, science telescopes and eventually paying astro-tourists expected to use the fully reusable rocket system for rides to space.
Starship Explosion: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship test flight ends with an explosion. The world’s biggest and most powerful rocket exploded minutes after it took off but Elon Musk has touted it as a success
The spectacular explosion of SpaceX s new Starship rocket minutes after it soared off its launch pad on a first flight test is the latest vivid illustration of a "successful failure" business formula that serves Elon Musk s company well, experts said on Thursday.