This kind of thing is to be expected and the important thing is that SpaceX was able to obtain valuable the data that these kind of exercises provide
(it's a piece of shit).
During the pre-dawn hours in South Texas on Friday morning, SpaceX’s next-generation Starship first stage suffered some sort of major damage during pre-launch testing.
The company had only rolled the massive rocket out of the factory a day earlier, noting the beginning of its test campaign, it said on the social media site X: “The first operations will test the booster’s redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength.”
Verdict: no structural strength.
