{"id":214927,"date":"2025-05-28T06:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/starship-tumbles-back-to-ocean-after-reaching-a-nominal-orbit"},"modified":"2025-05-28T06:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:03:07","slug":"starship-tumbles-back-to-ocean-after-reaching-a-nominal-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/starship-tumbles-back-to-ocean-after-reaching-a-nominal-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Starship tumbles back to Ocean after reaching a nominal orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starship-tumbles-back-to-ocean-after-reaching-a-nominal-orbit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s dream of colonizing Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off around 6:36 pm (2336 GMT) from the company\u2019s Starbase facility, near a southern Texas village that earlier this month voted to become a city \u2014 also named Starbase.<\/p>\n<p>Excitement ran high among SpaceX engineers and spectators alike, after the last two outings ended with the upper stage disintegrating in fiery cascades over the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s dream of colonizing Mars. The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off around 6:36 pm (2336 GMT) from the company\u2019s Starbase facility, near a southern Texas village that earlier [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}