The Tremendous Heavy booster returns to its launch pad after the SpaceX Starship spacecraft continued to house following its launch on its eighth check on the firm’s Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., March 6, 2025.
Joe Skipper | Reuters
SpaceX misplaced contact with its Starship rocket in house on Thursday in the course of the firm’s eighth check mission, dooming a satellite tv for pc deployment demonstration within the firm’s second consecutive Starship failure this 12 months.
The 403-foot(1223-meter)-tall rocket system lifted off at round 6:30 p.m. ET (2300 GMT) from SpaceX’s sprawling Boca Chica, Texas, rocket amenities, with its Tremendous Heavy first stage booster returning again to land as deliberate.
However minutes later, the Starship higher stage started to spin uncontrolled in house, SpaceX’s reside stream confirmed. A visualization of the rocket’s engines confirmed a number of shutdowns earlier than the corporate confirmed it had misplaced contact with the ship.
“Sadly this occurred final time too so we have got some follow now,” SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot mentioned on the reside stream.
A Starship check mission in January ended eight minutes into flight when the Starship exploded in house, raining particles over Caribbean islands.
SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft atop it is Tremendous Heavy booster is launched on its eighth check on the firm’s Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., March 6, 2025.
Joe Skipper | Reuters
