Starship burst
Part of SpaceX's Starship Mark 1 vehicle falls back to the ground after being blown off the vehicle, surrounded in a white plume, after an incident during a tanking test Nov. 20 in Texas.

The first prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation launch system was damaged Nov. 20 during a tanking test, a setback the company claimed would not serious affect their development plans.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...