Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn. Teams will continue to review data from today's flight test to better understand root cause. With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s flight will help us improve Starship’s

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Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

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Super Heavy is transonic and landing burn initiated

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Starship trajectory is nominal

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Starship’s Raptor engines ignite during hot-staging separation. Super Heavy is returning to launch site for catch attempt

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Liftoff of Starship!

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Super Heavy will generate a sonic boom upon return, which is a brief, thunder-like noise we hear when an aircraft or other object travels faster than the speed of sound

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Propellant loading complete. Starship is fully loaded with more than 4900 metric tons (10.8 million pounds) of propellant

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Watch Starship's seventh flight test → spacex.com/launches/missi x.com/i/broadcasts/1

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