Elon Musk jokes that it's 'just a scratch' as his SpaceX Starship rocket bursts into a gigantic ball of flames during explosion at test site in Texas

Elon Musk has made light of the latest SpaceX test, which ended with the enormous rocket exploding on the launch pad. While footage showed Starship bursting into a gigantic ball of fire, Musk claimed that this was'just a scratch.' The Starship 36 rocket was undergoing a static fire test at SpaceX's Starbase test site at around 11pm last night, when its nose suddenly burst open. Within seconds, a giant ball of fire could be seen spreading on the ground as black clouds of smoke reached up to the night sky. The static fire test is a pre-flight procedure in which a rocket engine or a set of engines are ignited while the vehicle is firmly bolted to the launch mount, meaning the rocket was not set to launch Wednesday night when the explosion occurred. In a statement, SpaceX said the rocket suffered'a major anomaly while on a test stand at Starbase.