First, the excellent news: SpaceX efficiently ignited all six engines on its Starship S24 prototype throughout a static fireplace check.

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Now the dangerous. The check induced a super-hot hailstorm of particles to scatter lots of of ft away from the rocket, inflicting a brush fireplace that “started to burn unusually aggressively, rapidly rising into partitions of flames that sped throughout the terrain,” based on the web site Teslarati.

The fireplace raged in all instructions, finally discovering its strategy to, you guessed it, a SpaceX dumpster, which burned for hours. Native fireplace crews have been known as to Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, to place out the hearth. A video of the incident will be discovered on YouTube.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has not commented publicly on the mishap. However he has touted the big new Starship as a automobile that may transport people to the moon, Mars, and past. It is “a generalized transport mechanism for the better photo voltaic system,” stated Musk.

Starship is powered by Raptor engines, an enormous first-stage booster known as Tremendous Heavy, and a 165-foot-tall upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship.

SpaceX is gearing up for a landmark Starship orbital mission later this 12 months.