SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to X on Thursday night to explain what his company believes may have caused part of the Starship rocket to experience a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

The seventh test flight of SpaceX’s Starship ended with a successful landing of the rocket’s first stage but also the loss of the Starship vehicle

“It’s weird if it doesn’t explode, frankly,” Musk said in 2021, “because we’re trying to develop advanced rockets at a high speed and if you want to get payload to orbit, you have to run things close to the edge.”