The enormous cloud of billowing smoke produced by SpaceX's megarocket during its debut launch attempt was clearly visible as far as 22,000 miles away from Earth.
, Super Heavy continued to fire for about three minutes. But as the first stage was set to separate from the Starship upper stage, something went wrong and the entire stack began to tumble instead, eventually exploding in a series of fireworks. In the GOES-16 timelapse, a small white spot can be seen separating from the cloud shortly after liftoff and descend toward the blue ocean surface.
The bright green spot shows the engines of SpaceX's Starship megarocket during its failed debut launch as captured by the weather satellite GOES-16
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