A test of SpaceX's Starship rocket ended in failure late Friday evening.

The cause of the anomaly, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, was a malfunctioning "puck" at the base of the rocket.

Musk tweeted that the company plans to test another prototype in the coming days.

Late Friday evening, SpaceX conducted a test for its Starship rocket, and the results were rather ... explosive. The rocket was filled with super-cooled propellant when it imploded, sending chunks of metal high into the air above the company's Boca Chica, Texas facility. Based on footage taken by Twitter user Boca Chica Gal, it looks like the test vehicle is a goner.

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Musk's response? "It's fine, we'll just buff it out."

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Where’s Flextape when you need it!? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 2, 2020

The SpaceX CEO blamed the anomaly on a malfunctioning "puck" near the base of the rocket that "takes the engine thrust load." The prototype that imploded during Friday night's test, SN1, is the first of many. Musk says the next prototype, SN2, is a marked improvement on SN1, and will be ready for testing in the next few days.



SpaceX has been zipping through the testing and iteration process. In September 2019, Musk unveiled the MK1 Starship prototype, which failed in tests just two months later. The company has since conducted a number of pressure tests, with test vehicles surviving 8.5 bar at cryogenic temperatures, according to Inverse.

SpaceX has big plans for Starship. The company has an orbital flight test planned for later this year and hopes to eventually send astronauts into deep space—to the moon by 2023 and to Mars by 2050—aboard the sleek, silver rocket.

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