SpaceX’s Next-Gen Starship Booster Damaged During Testing Friday Morning Written 21 November 2025
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Six engine static fire of Flight 6 Starship. | Credit: SpaceX
Ars Technica reports, “During the pre-dawn hours in South Texas on Friday morning, SpaceX’s next-generation Starship first stage suffered some sort of major damage during pre-launch testing. The company had only rolled the massive rocket out of the factory a day earlier, noting the beginning of its test campaign said on the social media site X: “The first operations will test the booster’s redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength.”
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