SpaceX's latest Starship booster test ends with an explosion
which uploaded a video of the incident, the booster caught fire while the company was testing its Raptor engines. AsIn response totweet about the explosion, Musk said it's"actually not good" and that his team is assessing the damage.
He alsothat this issue was specific to the engine spin start test SpaceX had conducted —"Raptor has a complex start sequence," he said as an aside — and that going forward, the company"won't do a spin start test with all 33 engines at once."
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