After several weeks of testing Starship prototype SN4 something went wrong minutes after a successful engine test. A massive fuel leak caused an explosion which wrecked the vehicle and cause significant damage to the test stand. As far as we know nobody was injured and there are prototypes already waiting in the wings to continue tests. THIS IS NOT RELATED TO SPACEX's LAUCH WITH ASTRONAUTS THIS WEEKEND! I believe that unlike the first few failures due to welding quality this is not related to the manufacture of the rocket, but in the way it's connected to the ground service equipment that resulted in the propellent loading lines coming loose and spraying liquid methane everywhere. None of this footage is mine, it's all captured by amateurs in the area, please check out their original work and support them, heck it's worth watching the original stream just for the raw reaction to the event: NASASpaceflight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YaFsUWgN3s Everyday Astronaut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIh4aLX3cZQ SPadre https://www.youtube.com/user/spadrevideo LabPadre https://www.youtube.com/user/labpadre ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCUYG5SonCY

I spent 20 minutes talking with Martin Melicharek, project lead for Take On Mars, about the game, and where development is going. This video was created using games from Bohemia Interactive. 'Take On Mars' is a registered trademark of Bohemia Interactive a.s. See www.bistudio.com for more information. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TLoMhiobPY

The pilots of Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity reached an altitude of 82.7km this morning, which is high enough for the FAA to award them commercial astronaut wings. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOp9s32OYhs

"My Batteries are low, and it's getting dark" - those words struck a chord with people around the world, but of course the truth is the actual last transmissions from Opportunity and how it ended its mission on Mars are less poetic, but worthy of discussion. So let's discuss the technology behind the rover, the workarounds and hacks that kept it running and the actions of the team in charge of the mission. Thanks to Doug Ellison for the idea, and for correcting a couple of mistakes. Much of the data in this video can be found indexed on this site. https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS7S8T8vExM