• Science Starship, a SpaceX space vehicle, explodes during test

  • Starship: SpaceX spacecraft explodes during test landing

  • Space.A prototype of SpaceX's Starship explodes during another test landing

SpaceX's Starship prototype, which should take humans to Mars, landed successfully today in Boca Chica (Texas) after a 10-kilometer ascent, but ended up exploding shortly after landing.

The SN10 model was launched after several postponements

this Wednesday afternoon from the SpaceX platform in Texas and managed to ascend 10,000 meters in

just over four minutes

as planned, hovered on its belly, turned on its axis and landed vertically.

However, while waiting for SpaceX to clarify what could happen, the rocket exploded shortly after making landfall in a

spectacular deflagration

.

Elon Musk, founder of the company that has managed to commercially use the first phase rocket engines that land vertically, announced on his Twitter account that the SN10 had "landed in one piece", but what he refers to as

"

finally happened.

unforeseen rapid disassembly "

.

This is the third time the Starship, a much more complex, three-engined version of its commercial rockets, has attempted to complete a test landing, but it is the

first time the landing has been completed to the point of resting vertically.

SpaceX hopes to conduct a

crewed flight around the Moon in 2023

and progressively advance until it can land humans on the moon.

The phases that are being tested would be the final part that should land after leaving Earth orbit, both on another planet and back to Earth.

Musk estimates that the development of this

project will be about 5 billion

, while some experts doubt that colonizing Mars is a viable undertaking.

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