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The billionaire tycoon Elon Musk, owner of the Aerospace company Spacex, subtracted this Thursday importance to the explosion of a Spacex rocket on Wednesday night, when he performed preparatory ignition tests for an upcoming release.
«Just a scratch,» Musk wrote in his X profile, a social network of which he also owns, this morning.
The explosion occurred around 23:00 of Texas, from where it was planned to take off, and could be seen live, since the tests were being broadcast through different social networks.
Among the platforms that issued their failed take-off was ‘NSF-naspaceflight.com’, specialized in space missions and used by the initials of the US agency with authorization but it is not an official NASA channel.
Spacex reported through its official X account of this «serious anomaly» suffered by the ship when it was in a test bank in the ‘Starbase’, the space port that the company has for the development and production of its ‘starship’ rockets in Texas (United States).
The company pointed out in its networks that a clear security zone was maintained around the site throughout the operation and that all staff are safe, and also specified that its staff works «actively» to ensure the test site and its surroundings in collaboration with local authorities.
He also said that there are no risks to residents of the surrounding communities and made a call so that no one tries to approach the area while security operations continue.
This incident adds to those suffered by the Starship Rocket – with which the magnate company intends to reach Mars – during the last months; The last one on May 27, when the ship, after a test launch, managed to reach the land orbit but broke down and fell to the ocean after losing fuel in what was its ninth test flight. EFE
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