Blazing success and dramatic destruction: How SpaceX’s Starship succeeded and failed in pioneering test launch
Starship – the most powerful rocket ever made, the heaviest thing put into orbit, and perhaps the spacecraft that will one day carry humans to Mars – was falling back down to Earth. It was aglow with the hot plasma that is generated by plunging through the atmosphere at speed.
And then it disappeared. SpaceX’s video connection, which until then had been providing pristine views of the mission, was cut.
“The ship has been lost. So no splashdown today,” said SpaceX’s Dan Huot shortly after. “But again, it’s incredible to see how
