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Starship/Super Heavy lifts off on second flight - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)
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I think it's safe to celebrate the SpaceX team for today's amazing flight!

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[–] Figureinplastic 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then what happened?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First stage worked beautifully, but engines started failing after stage separation and it self-destructed.

Second stage also looked like it was going perfectly, but a few seconds before its burn ended it also self-destructed for no immediately apparent reason. It was literally seconds away from achieving orbit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

All I got from the article is that they lost telemetry. For all we know it got eaten by another spaceship up there.