Dozens of startups working on data centers, mining and pharmaceuticals are hanging on Elon Musk's long-stalled megarocket.
The blast shot a fireball and debris into the during testing for the 400-foot rocket system in Brownsville on Texas' southwest Gulf Coast.
A cosmic explosion with an energy level equivalent to the output of a billion of suns went unnoticed by astronomers — until they caught the "echo" of this so-called gamma-ray burst, that is.