SpaceX's Starship SN10 Lands Successfully And Then Explodes!

Starship SN10 lands successfully for the first time and then blows up!

SpaceX's Starship SN10 became the first Starship prototype to successfully complete the 10km high altitude flight test. Starship SN10 showed that the new landing approach by SpaceX works. However, shortly after successfully landing, SN10 exploded.

Starship SN10 appears to have had a hard touchdown, which resulted in the vehicle leaning towards one side. Shortly after SpaceX's live stream ended, SN10 joined SN8 and SN9, and had a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. What went wrong?

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[PJSinohin]

2:28 it actually bounced!
8 minutes before self destruct.

[maheshkris]

Ur very good.Please let me know about yourself

[PJSinohin]

Its like when the overly excited operator pushed the launch button again instead of the shutdown button.

[nishantyadav]

Its assumed that there was methane leakage while bouncing the tanks may have suffered some problem.

[rexroad]

There was fire on the right side before it landed, there was fire on the right side after it landed, the second launch seemed to start with a fire on the right side. The right side had the landing legs deployed, the left side didn't. Also, with some fuel remaining in the rocket and the rocket tilted, noone could approach safely. SpaceX may have intentionally fired the rocket engine to explode SN10 to make it safe. There really wasn't any reason to keep it whole. The purpose of the flight was to gather data. SN10 fulfilled that purpose. SN11, SN12 .... are waiting for their flights and SN10 is in the way. It is easier to cut up an exploded SN10 than to make safe a leaning-standing SN10. This is my uneducated guess which may be wrong. I did expect them to blow up the leaning SN10 to make it safe -- a minute after the dust cleared on landing. So the second launch did not surprise me.

[Rooster_king]

Rockets love to bounce up and down bro 🤣

[michaelcondon]

Would they intentionally blow up the rocket