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SpaceX Starship launch successful, but a booster went boom.

NASASpaceFlight (below) has multiple angles of the booster explosion if you scrub back. Today was supposed to be the first time in history that an entire orbital launch system would be recovered, but that milestone will have to wait. The Starship itself successfully deployed 26 satellite payloads, though, and it may still be able to return to SpaceX’s Starbase.

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