SpaceX is ten full-scale test launches into developing its enormous, nearly 400-feet-tall Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. Over the last two and a half years, we've seen over half a dozen spectacular explosions.

SpaceX Starship's 9th flight test ended with the loss of the vehicle over the Indian Ocean. The ship lost attitude control while in suborbital space. Credit: SpaceX | edited by Space.com

A salvage ship was working in Mexican waters southeast of Starbase to pull up parts of a Starship booster that flew in November.

The post SpaceX’s Starship Test Flight 9 Accomplished A Lot, But Resulted In A Massive Explosion, Marking The Fourth Failed Test Flight For The Massive Rocket first on TwistedSifter. The ninth test flight of SpaceX’s Starship recently took place, and like several others before, it ended with an explosion.

It was Ship that exploded on Wednesday night, on a test stand at Starbase's Massey site (not the orbital launch mount, from which Starship liftoffs occur). According to NASASpaceflight, which closely monitors Starship activity at Starbase, the anomaly occurred just before Ship was set to perform a static-fire test.

SpaceX's Starship exploded for the most recent time earlier in June at Starbase. Now, Mexico is threatening legal action for potential pollution.

June 19 (Reuters) - SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas late on Wednesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for billionaire Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program.

Elon Musk confirms SpaceX will launch its tenth Starship test flight soon. The launch is expected in about three weeks. This follows previous setbacks