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The Times summary is solid:

> SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Explodes After Launch

> The most powerful rocket ever built got off the launchpad in South Texas, but did not achieve its most ambitious goals on Thursday.

Starship achieves liftoff, but fails to stick the landing.

It did some pretty sick acrobatics.

If the separation did not fail it probably would have made it to orbit.

First-stage burnout speed was too low for orbit, I think. Telemetry peaked at 2,148 km/hour = 597 m/s – I don't know the nominal values but this seems non-viable to me.

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