SpaceX Starship launch: all of the news on its test flight and that explosive ending
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The Starship took a chunk out of its launch tower and everything underneath.
This picture, apparently posted to a forum for Beechcraft airplane owners, claims to show the damage underneath the tower where Starship launched on Thursday.
In some video footage of the launch, you can see what’s said to be large pieces of concrete flying into the air along with Starship.
Elon Musk previously tweeted that not building in a flame diverter “could turn out to be a mistake,” but it looks like Starship dug one of its own anyway, prompting several people to say the company designed reusable rockets with single use launch mounts.
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