{"id":792859,"date":"2025-01-21T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792859"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:27:06","slug":"incredible-images-show-the-moment-spacexs-starship-exploded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792859","title":{"rendered":"Incredible images show the moment SpaceX&#8217;s Starship exploded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Starship flight test 7 goes through \u201crapid unscheduled disassembly\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">James Temple Photography<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>These eerie images of a fiery sky show the moment when SpaceX\u2019s Starship rocket dramatically returned to Earth in pieces last week. They were captured by photographer James Temple, who was working as a chef on a superyacht in the Turks and Caicos Islands. When he realised what was happening, he grabbed his camera extender for a closer shot.<\/p>\n<p>Starship\u2019s seventh flight test took off from SpaceX\u2019s site at Boca Chica, Texas, on 16 January, but SpaceX lost contact with the rocket after approximately eight and\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2464934-incredible-images-show-the-moment-spacexs-starship-exploded\/?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>Starship flight test 7 goes through \u201crapid unscheduled disassembly\u201d James Temple Photography These eerie images of a fiery sky show the moment when SpaceX\u2019s Starship rocket dramatically returned to Earth&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792859","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\/792859","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=792859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}