This year has not been good for Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. Because on Thursday (local time) SpaceX lost contact with its Starship rocket in space just minutes after launch, this is the second consecutive failure of the company’s Starship this year.
According to reports, Elon Musk’s SpaceX lost control of Starship in space just minutes after launch on Thursday, causing the engines to shut down, as shown in the company’s live stream, Minutes later, several videos on social media showed a fireball-like debris from the spacecraft in the evening sky near South Florida and the Bahamas.
SpaceX live streams showed the Starship going uncontrollably into the air. The Federal Aviation Administration has briefly halted flights at Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando airports due to space launch debris, Reuters reports. The Starship disintegrated in space after a SpaceX live stream of the mission showed it tumbling uncontrollably.