Starship 12 rocket explodes as it completes its landing.✅

Starship 12 rocket explodes as it completes its landing
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Stunning fireball during tense final maneuvers of SpaceX Starship that is set to carry men to moon
23:30 BST 22 May 2026, updated 19:06 BST 23 May 2026
By CHRIS MELORE, US DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR

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The largest and most powerful rocket in history exploded in a massive fireball after its successful test flight around the Earth Friday night.

Elon Musk's SpaceX declared the launch of Starship 12 a success and noted that the space capsule's explosion in the Indian Ocean was planned as the aerospace company did not plan to reuse the experimental craft.

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Starship Flight 12 took off from SpaceX's launching pad in Starbase, Texas Friday night as the company began critical trials before NASA uses this third version of Starship to take astronauts to the moon and beyond.

While the craft successfully made it into space, the launch was not perfect, as Starship lost the use of one of its six new 'Raptor' engines. It was forced to burn its remaining five engines longer to compensate.

However, the unmanned rocket was still able to complete most of its planned mission, successfully surviving reentry and completing its landing maneuvers before splashing down in the ocean and erupting into a ball of flame.

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