{"id":378,"date":"2025-05-28T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/?p=378"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:06:02","slug":"spacex-starship-spins-out-of-control-breaks-up-on-latest-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/spacex-starship-spins-out-of-control-breaks-up-on-latest-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Starship spins out of control, breaks up on latest flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX\u2019s Starship was launched into space Tuesday evening, but the world\u2019s biggest and most powerful rocket<\/a> ever built spun out of control and broke up on its latest test flight. <\/p>\n

The takeoff was the third test flight<\/a> in 2025 and the ninth since testing started in April 2023. It was launched from Starbase, Texas, had a smooth takeoff, but problems cropped up while in orbit.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly. Teams will continue to review data and work toward our next flight test,\u201d SpaceX said in a Tuesday night post<\/a> on the social platform X.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today\u2019s test will help us improve Starship\u2019s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multiplanetary,” the company wrote.<\/p>\n

The Starship started to spin out of control about 30 minutes into the mission, while the company \u2014 owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk \u2014 lost contact with the booster before it hit the water. <\/p>\n

\u201cStarship made it to the scheduled ship engine cutoff, so big improvement over last flight! Also, no significant loss of heat shield tiles during ascent,” Musk wrote Tuesday night<\/a> on X. “Leaks caused loss of main tank pressure during the coast and re-entry phase.”<\/p>\n

\u201cLot of good data to review. Launch cadence for next 3 flights will be faster, at approximately 1 every 3 to 4 weeks,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The test flight was the first time SpaceX flew the rocket with a recycled booster, which eventually splashed into the Gulf of America, formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SpaceX\u2019s Starship was launched into space Tuesday evening, but the world\u2019s biggest and most powerful rocket ever built spun out of control and broke up on its latest test flight.  The takeoff was the third test flight in 2025 and the ninth since testing started in April 2023. It was launched from Starbase, Texas, had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}