A big mission by Elon Musk’s SpaceX worked only in part. On Friday (US time), the Starship rocket took off from a launch pad in Texas. It placed 26 satellites in orbit.
But SpaceX did not manage to catch the lower part of the rocket back at the launch tower. This part, called the Super Heavy booster, was supposed to fly back to the pad. It developed a fault, blew up and fell into the Gulf of Mexico.
The upper part of the rocket, the spacecraft, is still flying in space. It is set to go around the Earth 14 times and return to the planet 22.5 hours after liftoff.
Booster raksasa Starship milik SpaceX meledak dahsyat di Starbase Texas US https://t.co/pdJm25mGzn
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