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Elon Musk Explains Why the Starship SN10 Prototype Exploded After Landing [gizmodo.com.au]:

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The third high-altitude test of a SpaceX Starship prototype ended with a successful landing [gizmodo.com.au] on March 3 — and then, moments later, ended for a second time with an explosion.

Although the SN10, as the prototype was known, joined its two most recent predecessors in the fiery great beyond, it was still celebrated as a success for becoming the first of Elon Musk’s Mars-bound Starship prototypes to stick the landing. On Tuesday, Musk took to Twitter to elaborate [twitter.com] on why the SN10 came in a little too hot, and clarified that a series of fixes was already in the works for the next prototype in the series, the SN11.

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