Starship packed a lot of action into four minutes of flight.
Starship's first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, didn't fire on all cylinders during the launch, however. Three of its 33 Raptors apparently didn't light up at liftoff, and two more conked out during the brief flight.
The next big milestones were supposed to occur back to back to back just under three minutes after liftoff: Super Heavy engine shutdown, followed by stage separation and the lighting of the upper-stage vehicle's six Raptor engines. Stage separation never came. And Super Heavy's engines appeared to keep firing long past the targeted cutoff point, which wasThe full-stack Starship kept tumbling for another minute or so before exploding three minutes and 59 seconds after launch, likely because SpaceX activated the vehicle's flight termination system at this point.
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