SpaceX said the Starship rocket, which crashed shortly after launch, was deliberately destroyed.
It was noted that many engines on the ship malfunctioned and started to turn by losing altitude.
“The flight of both the ship and the thruster has been ordered to complete,” SpaceX said.
On the eve of the super heavy rocket Starship Exploded during orbital flight tests.
About three minutes after launch, the rocket began oscillating randomly around the axis of flight before the stages separated. 3 minutes 59 seconds after launch, the rocket exploded.
Starship is a next-generation, super-heavy, fully reusable rocket with both stages landing on its tail. It is Starship that will have to get astronauts to the moon under the NASA Artemis program in the second half of the 2020s.