WATCH the spectacular moment a SpaceX rocket burst into a ball of flames during a routine test.
Elon Musk’s Starship 36 rocket was going through a static fire test at the Starbase test site in Texas when it erupted into flames on Wednesday night.
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Footage shows the rocket standing upright in the night, with a small plume of smoking rising from its base.
The nose suddenly erupts with a searing white light and a ferocious column of flames and smoke.
A swirling fireball spills across the site as the rocket fuel combusts, clearing to show a blazing wreck where the space craft sat.
Officials said the test suffered a catastrophic engineering failure, but that no one was injured.
Locals felt the shockwaves of the explosion, reporting that it rattled windows and dishes, according to Valley Central.
Fire crews were rushed to the scene.
The Port Isabel local authority said that SpaceX “experiences a spacecraft anomaly during testing at its facility” and reassured residents it was monitoring the situation.
A static fire test is a pre-flight procedure where the engines are fired up for a few seconds with the rocket bolted to the ground.
The Starship 36 was not supposed to launch.
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