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SpaceX’s Starship rocket blew a huge crater into the concrete launchpad during liftoff

Starship is the tallest, most powerful rocket ever built, capable of generating about 17 million pounds of thrust upon liftoff

Newsroom April 25 11:00

SpaceX’s Starship, the megarocket from Elon Musk’s space-exploration company exploded last week after its first attempted orbital launch.

But the rocket wasn’t the only thing left in pieces.

A video shared on LabPadre’s YouTube account shows a large crater beneath the launchpad’s circular launch mount in Boca Chica, Texas.

Starship is the tallest, most powerful rocket ever built, capable of generating about 17 million pounds of thrust upon liftoff. And all that power was enough to cause some major destruction and send sand and soil raining down on a nearby town.

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Other pieces of equipment, including storage tanks near the launchpad, also suffered damage, which has raised questions about when Starship may be able to attempt another launch to space.

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