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Starship exploded about 4 minutes after take off

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SpaceX’s enormous Starship rocket finally launched – and then exploded

The launch of SpaceX's Starship rocket, the biggest and most powerful to ever fly, didn't quite go as planned. It lifted off from the Starbase launch facility in Texas on 20 April but exploded a few minutes afterwards

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SpaceX's Starship is scheduled to launch on 20 April

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Starship launch livestream: Watch as SpaceX begins second attempt

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The first 3D-printed rocket is about to launch into space

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Japan's H3 rocket launch

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Japan's H3 rocket self-destructs following launch failure

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An adapted Boeing 747 called Cosmic Girl

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First satellite launch from the UK set to go ahead in Cornwall

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The Long March 5B rocket at the Wenchang launch site in China

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Chinese rocket has crashed back to Earth but no one knows where

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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches on its mission with a classified payload for the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., November 1, 2022. REUTERS/Steve Nesius - HP1EIB112QE00

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket just launched two Space Force satellites

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A photograph of ex-NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver

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Lori Garver on why NASA is returning to the moon for the wrong reasons

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Wreckage of a Long March rocket that fell to Earth in China in 2014

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10 per cent chance falling rockets will hit someone in next decade

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Rocket Lab catches a falling rocket with a helicopter

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Watch Rocket Lab catch a falling rocket with a helicopter

US company Rocket Lab achieved a historic first by catching a rocket falling back to Earth in mid-air using a helicopter

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Rocket Lab briefly caught a falling rocket with a helicopter

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Watch Axiom and SpaceX launch all-commercial mission to the ISS

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World’s largest ever firework successfully explodes over Colorado

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