Starship launch live: the latest on Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket, live today

Elon Musk: "Congrats SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship!"

While the spaceX team would've liked to have seen the Starship make its full journey flying east around the globe to its final destination, a watery grave in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii instead of the Gulf of Mexico, they were content that the behemoth rocket made it off the launch pad.

Likewise much valuable data was collected which will be analyzed before the next launch in a few months.

Video of the moment Starship went Kaboom

After the Super Heavy Booster and Starship failed to separate it resulted in a spectacular explosion.

Starship explodes after launch

Here is a chot of the moment Spacex's Starship performed a "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" over the  Gulf of Mexico.

A view of the Super Heavy from below

The Starship completed its first test flight on Thursday, but not exactly as everyone would have hoped. However, it did give us some spectacular images, and here's one as it raced toward space.

Starship liftoff ends in "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly"

The liftoff of SpaceX's Starship was put on hold with less than 40 seconds to go with a 15-minute window to go forward. After the greenlight was given the behemoth took flight. However, the stage separate failed to take place and the first test flight of Starship ended in a fiery explosion.

RUD: Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

Obviously, we wanted to make it all the way through. But, to get this far, honestly, is amazing.

Superheavy Booster and Starship fail to separate and goes boom!

Roughly three minutes into flight the Superheavy Booster was suppose to separate from the Starship portion of SpaceX's rocket.

However, failing that the two portions exploded. The team is happy! It got off the pad.

Starship is off the ground

After a brief delay Starship has taken flight!

Comparison of Starship to other rockets

Starship combined with the Supeheavy Booster is the tallest rocket ever built. But how does it compare to other rockets?

Animated view of Starship launch and path of first test flight

Elon Musk's Starship was set to launch from the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica on the southern coast of Texas on Monday. About three minutes into the flight the booster and upper stage would've separated with the former falling into the Gulf of Mexico.

The upper stage would've continued until reaching orbit, hopefully, as it traversed the globe before splashing down in the Pacific off the coast of Kauai.

The second attempt on Thursday will follow the same path.

The scale of Starship compared to the Hoover Dam

To give people a sense of the sheer size of the Starship it is comparable to the steel pipes for the Hoover Dam.

Staship pre-launch entertainment to get to know SpaceX's Starbase

Starbase is located in southern Texas. It is SpaceX's facilities for testing its rockets. This video from The Verge video is 20 minutes long, so don't get too wrapped up before the fireworks start. SpaceX's live stream begins at 9:45 am ET.

Starship would be a game changer for space exploration

The sheer size of the Starship is like nothing that has ever been seen before. If successful, it will become the tallest and most powerful rocket to be put into use.

At full capacity it could carry up to 100 people aboard. It also has the ability to refuel in space which will lend itself to manned exploration to the far reaches of our solar system.

NASA plans to use the Starship in Artemis program to land astronauts on the Moon. Elon wants to use the behemoth to take humans to Mars to establish a colony.

Bird's eye view of the Starship on the launch pad at Starbase in Boca Chica

The SpaceX Starbase is located on the southern coast of Texas near the border with Mexico in Boca Chica. Fans of SpaceX are posting spectacular images of the massive rocket that is nearly twice as powerful as the one that successfully sent NASA's Artemis I mission around the Moon late last year.

T'was the night before SpaceX's Starship launch

The Starship measures 394 feet tall, the tallest rocket ever built, which is nearly 90 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty in New York.

Here's a view of the goliath on the eve of its Thursday launch attempt.

Welcome to AS USA’s live blog on the SpaceX Starship launch

The most powerful rocket ever built is set for its second attempt to get off the ground and hopefully into orbit on Thursday 20 April. The launch window begins at 9:28 am ET and is set to last 62 minutes.

The first test launch on Monday 17 April from SpaceX’s facilities in Boca Chica, Texas was scrubbed due to a pressurization issue in Booster 7.

The Starship rocket is nearly twice as powerful as the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from the Artemis mission to return humans to the Moon that was successfully tested late last year.

Follow along as history is made yet again in the endeavor to take man one day to Mars.