SpaceX Starship SN4 launch vehicle prototype explodes after static engine test
This is the 4th Starship that has imploded or exploded.   They only lost 3 Falcon 1's before their first successful flight, and Elon has publicly stated that a 4th failure would have bankrupted the company.<p>Those three Falcon flights were attempts to reach orbit with rockets that weren't prototypes so the failures were more significant, and they probably blew up a bunch of Falcon prototypes behind closed doors prior to the launch attempts, but it's interesting how three failures on Falcon was a big deal but four failures on Starship isn't.   SpaceX is certainly in a different and much less precarious position now than it was in 2006-2008.