SpaceX Starship: What happened during Elon Musk's rocket launch

SpaceX's anticipated motorboat of its Starship - the astir almighty abstraction rocket ever built - was a success.

But, if you were watching you mightiness person been confused astir what happened. There were cheers and applause implicit the occurrence of the launch... but determination was besides an explosion.

The BBC's subject analogous Jonathan Amos breaks down however the motorboat went.

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