• SpaceX loses third Starship prototype in cryogenic ground test (SpaceflightNow)
• Starship SN3 failure due to bad commanding. SN4 already under construction (NASA Spaceflight)
• Third Starship prototype destroyed in tanking test (Space News)

And still speaking of SpaceX, because it’s that kind of day, one final story about how space is hard.

Early Friday, April 3rd, SpaceX was conducting a pressure test of the third Starship prototype when something, well…  went wrong.

According to a tweet from Elon Musk, this happened because the tanks in the top half were loaded before the tanks in the lower half were, causing it to crumple and then undergo rapid unplanned disassembly. He went on to say “If you lose pressure control on rocket propellant tanks, you’re doomed anyway, so might as well go all in”.

Starship SN4 is already under construction. Space is hard, people.