{"id":779331,"date":"2024-03-21T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=779331"},"modified":"2024-03-21T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:39:03","slug":"spacexs-starship-created-a-volcano-like-explosion-in-first-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=779331","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starship created a volcano-like explosion in first launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Debris left by the explosion of the SpaceX Starship launch pad in Texas on 22 April 2023<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">UPI\/Alamy Live News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>When SpaceX\u2019s Starship rocket launched for the first time in 2023, it destroyed its launch pad in an explosion similar to a volcanic eruption that sent huge chunks of concrete high into the sky. Understanding the blast in detail could help us design more robust launch and landing pads for future missions to the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was eye-opening to us that launch pads could explode so violently,\u201d says Philip Metzger\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2423465-spacexs-starship-created-a-volcano-like-explosion-in-first-launch\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debris left by the explosion of the SpaceX Starship launch pad in Texas on 22 April 2023 UPI\/Alamy Live News When SpaceX\u2019s Starship rocket launched for the first time in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/779332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}