A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on the Texas Gulf Coast. It's an apparent major setback for the program.

A SpaceX Starship exploded at the company's Starbase launch site in Texas Wednesday night, bursting into a massive fireball.

The late-night explosion at SpaceX's rocket development complex in Starbase, Texas, destroyed the bullet-shaped upper stage ...

Liquid helium exists at -452 degrees Fahrenheit, a lot colder than SpaceX’s liquid oxygen propellant at -340 degrees Fahrenheit. And oxygen solidifies at -361 degrees Fahrenheit.

Before explosion, SpaceX had a liquid nitrogen leak at its Starbase facility in Boca Chica By Eric Killelea , Staff writer Updated July 15, 2022 3:41 p.m. SpaceX Booster 7 on the launch pad July 1.

Risks of explosion are mitigated by the evaporation and burning of droplets within hydrogen-oxygen aerosol mixtures. Inside rocket combustion chambers, the identical evaporation and burning ...

WOOLWINE — Patrick County officials say they believe they know what caused an explosion at the Thomas Industrial Fabrication plant in Woolwine. “The cause of the explosion is believed to be ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Spontaneous Explosion of the Charcoal in Liquid-Oxygen Containers ” in SA Supplements Vol. 87 No. 2247supp (January 1919), p. 52 doi:10. ...