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  "description": "It marked the latest in a series of incidents involving Starship rockets.",
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  "textContent": "June 20, 2025 (AP) – A SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas exploded Wednesday night, sending a dramatic fireball high into the sky.\n\nThe company said the Starship “experienced a major anomaly” at about 11 p.m. while on the test stand preparing for the tenth flight test at Starbase, SpaceX’s launch site at the southern tip of Texas.\n\n“A safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted for,” SpaceX said in a statement on the social platform X.\n\n\n\n_****FROM SPEEDING BEAD SUMMIT****_\n _****Panel 1: How Are States Thinking About Reasonable Costs Now?****_\n_****Panel 2: Finding the State Versus Federal Balance in BEAD****_\n _****Panel 3: Reacting to the New BEAD NOFO Guidance****_\n _****Panel 4: Building, Maintaining and Adopting Digital Workforce Skills****_\n\n All Videos from Speeding BEAD Summit \n\n## Want top news about tech, politics, and infrastructure?\n\nFree Broadband Breakfast News every morning, Mon.-Fri.\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nUnsubscribe anytime.\n\nIt marked the latest in a series of incidents involving Starship rockets. On Jan. 16, one of the massive rockets broke apart in what the company called a “rapid unscheduled disassembly,\" sending trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean. Two months later, Space X lost contact with another Starship during a March 6 test flight as the spacecraft broke apart, with wreckage seen streaming over Florida.\n\nFollowing the back-to-back explosions, one of the 403-foot (123-meter) Starship rockets, launched from the southern tip of Texas, tumbled out of control and broke apart on May 27. SpaceX had hoped to release a series of mock satellites following liftoff, but that got nixed because the door failed to open all the way. Then the spacecraft began spinning and made an uncontrolled landing in the Indian Ocean.\n\nAt the time, SpaceX CEO **Elon Musk** called the launch “a big improvement” from the two previous demos and promised a much faster launch pace moving forward, with a Starship soaring every three to four weeks for the next three flights.\n\nSpaceX said Wednesday night's explosion posed no hazards to nearby communities. It asked people not to try to approach the site.\n\nThe company said it is working with local officials to respond to the explosion.\n\n_This article was written by the Associated Press._",
  "title": "SpaceX Rocket Being Tested in Texas Explodes",
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