{"id":599417,"date":"2026-05-23T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:22:08","slug":"moment-spacex-rocket-explodes-in-the-indian-ocean-after-splashdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599417\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment SpaceX rocket explodes in the Indian Ocean after splashdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has successfully launched its Starship V3 \u2013 the largest and most powerful rocket in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The test flight on Friday lasted about an hour and ended when Starship splashed down into the Indian Ocean and exploded as planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The launch went ahead a day after it was delayed due to a malfunctioning hydraulic pin in the launch tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The test flight achieved most of its major objectives but both stages of the rocket suffered engine failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has successfully launched its Starship V3 \u2013 the largest and most powerful rocket in history.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}