After a first attempt was interrupted due to a « frozen valve », a new test has been scheduled for April 20,2023.

The largest rocket 

 in the world ( the one who will take humanity to the Moon, Mars and beyond) was supposed to reach orbit and splash down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaï 90 minutes after liftoff. But « the rocket experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before Starship’s planned separation from first stage »- SpaceX.

April20,2023
8:28AM CT Starbase, Texas.
Starship has successfully lifted off but things did not go as planned.

ELON EXPLAINED THE SEQUENCE OF THE FLIGHT
– the rocket went supersonic without any problems 

– the Structure has resisted very well 

– it was a great flight that will allow us to progress.

But, at the time of liftoff the team decided not to start 3 of the 33 engines so the rocket liftoff with 30 engines.
         At T+27 seconds, engines 17/18/19 experienced some technical issues and engine 20 exploded.
          At T+62 seconds, the 30 engines were damaged.
          At T+85 seconds, communication with engine 6 was lost.
          Instead of separating, Super Heavy and Starship went into a spin and the team decided to blow up the rocket before it got out of control.

After the flight SpaceX wrote  « the vehicle experienced multiple engines failures during the flight test, lost altitude, and began to tumble. »
                                                     « Success comes from what we learn, and we learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems. That will help us improve on future flights of Starship »

As always, Elon was very optimistic for the future and as his optimism always pays off , we know that Starship will succeed.

Remember that Elon’s vision for Starship is a rapid reusable heavy- lift deep-space booster and spacecraft that can fly enormous payloads of cargo and crews to and from the Moon, or Mars, or anywhere on Earth.