Watch as SpaceX blows the top off of its Starship rocket in a pressure test:
"The decision had already been made to not fly this test article and the team is focused on the Mk3 builds, which are designed for orbit," SpaceX said.
Following this Wednesday's incident the company said first rocket, known as Mk1, "served as a valuable manufacturing pathfinder" but the "flight design is quite different." Neither SpaceX or Musk offered an update to the company's development timeline for Starship after the incident. The company's president Gwynne Shotwell said at a recent investor conference that SpaceX is aiming to land Starship on the moon by 2022.
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