Social media reports indicate the SpaceX Starship explosion was seen on the Treasure Coast. Did you take any photo or video?
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The Starship was intended to land in the Indian Ocean, but videos circulating on social media claim to show its fiery debris streaking across the night sky over the Atlantic.
SpaceX’s launch of Starship from near Brownsville, Texas on Thursday would have been visible from parts of South Florida, even if it had gone as planned.
The vehicle, intended for a controlled descent into the Indian Ocean, instead fell into a spin, and SpaceX lost contact.
The explosion of Starship S34 fewer than nine minutes after launching from Boca Chica on Thursday marks the second time in seven weeks that an uncrewed SpaceX rocket has disintegrated over the Caribbean.