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SpaceX Starship suffers midflight explosion, second major setback in recent months
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SpaceX's Starship has experienced a second launch failure this year. The incident occurred shortly after takeoff during a test-flight. However, the company was able to successfully return the booster to the launchpad. According to a SpaceX communications manager, several engines were lost during the explosion.
Our team immediately began coordination with safety officials to implement pre-planned contingency responses.
We will review the data from today's flight test to better understand [the] root cause. As always, success comes from what we learn, and today's flight will offer additional lessons to improve Starship's reliability.
And so, we did see the ship start to go into a spin, and at this point, we have lost contact with the ship.
Once you lose enough of those centre engines, you're going to lose attitude control.
Can confirm we did lose contact with the ship. Unfortunately, this happened last time, too.
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