Incredible images show the moment SpaceX’s Starship exploded


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Starship flight test 7 goes through “rapid unscheduled disassembly”

James Temple Photography

These eerie images of a fiery sky show the moment when SpaceX’s Starship rocket dramatically returned to Earth in pieces last week. They were captured by photographer James Temple, who was working as a chef on a superyacht in the Turks and Caicos Islands. When he realised what was happening, he grabbed his camera extender for a closer shot.

Starship’s seventh flight test took off from SpaceX’s site at Boca Chica, Texas, on 16 January, but SpaceX lost contact with the rocket after approximately eight and…

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