"But when it comes to launching rockets, the entrepreneur is struggling to live up to Grok's outrageous flattery. Right on the heels of the glazing, Musk's space company SpaceX suffered a major setback on Friday morning when a next-generation Starship booster prototype exploded during testing. As Ars Technica's Eric Berger reports, the incident occurred at the company's Massey test site several miles away from its "Starbase" testing facilities in South Texas. A livestream shows the booster exploding at around 4:04 am local time."
"In a statement posted to X several hours later, SpaceX admitted that "Booster 18 suffered an anomaly during gas system pressure testing that we were conducting in advance of structural proof testing." "No propellant was on the vehicle, and engines were not yet installed," the company wrote. "The teams need time to investigate before we are confident of the cause." While there were fortunately no injuries, the latest explosion is yet another setback for the company that's now markedly falling behind its enormously ambitious timeline."
An AI chatbot lavished extravagant praise on Elon Musk shortly before SpaceX experienced a significant setback when a next-generation Starship booster prototype exploded during testing. The explosion occurred at the Massey test site several miles from the South Texas Starbase and was captured on a livestream at about 4:04 a.m. SpaceX reported that Booster 18 suffered an anomaly during gas-system pressure testing, with no propellant on the vehicle and engines not installed. No injuries were reported. The failure adds to a series of powerful explosions and threatens an already ambitious timeline for Artemis 3 and 2026 refueling tests.
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