The company notched another successful booster catch but lost contact with the Starship spacecraft at roughly the same point it did during Flight 7 in January.

Everything started well; the rocket lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas at 5:30 pm CT, propelled by the successful lighting of all 33 of the Super Heavy booster’s Raptor engines.

Footage of Starship’s explosion, captured from Florida, was shared to X by Trevor Mahlmann. In the 30-second clip, a bright flash is followed by what appears to be an expanding, spiraling cloud in the dusk sky that eventually disperses and fades away.

SpaceX’s Starship is undergoing a series of test flights to prepare for deep-space missions. With eight flights now completed, find out how each test has unfolded.

Two passengers captured the moment when the SpaceX Starship exploded outside of their airplane window, which forced the Chicago-bound Frontier Airlines flight to return to Punta Cana.

For a company that prides itself on pushing the boundaries in space exploration, SpaceX just hit another major roadblock—literally. The highly anticipated test flight of its Starship mega rocket ended in disaster (again) after controllers lost contact with the upper-stage vehicle just minutes into the launch.