BOOM! SpaceX’s Starship Blows Up Over the Ocean—Elon Musk Faces Another Crushing Setback! Full story 👇👇👇

BOOM! SpaceX’s Starship Blows Up Over the Ocean—Elon Musk Faces Another Crushing Setback!

Elon Musk’s mission to colonize Mars suffers another setback. A starship launched on March 6 explodes minutes after its launch.

SpaceX Starship Launch, Elon Musk
SpaceX Starship Launch. Image Source: YouTube/Sky News Australia, SpaceX

On Thursday, March 6, SpaceX‘s starship spacecraft exploded in space minutes after its launch. It was Starship’s eighth flight test, which lifted off from Starbase in Texas at 5:30 pm CT. The explosion led the FAA to halt air traffic at multiple airports in Florida.

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX live-streamed the launch, which showed engines cutting off from the rocket approximately eight minutes into the launch. SpaceX communications manager Dan Huot said during the webcast, “We just saw some engines go out. It looks like we are losing altitude control of the ship.” The spacecraft reportedly spun uncontrollably with its engines cut off before the communication was lost.

Several video are doing rounds on social media that captures debris falling through the sky near south Florida and the Bahamas. SpaceX confirmed in its official statement, that the final contact with Starship was made “approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds after liftoff.”

Explaining what went wrong, Space X wrote on its website, “Prior to the end of the ascent burn, an energetic event in the aft portion of Starship resulted in the loss of several Raptor engines. This in turn led to a loss of attitude control and ultimately a loss of communications with Starship.”

The Starship then flew “within a designated launch corridor” in order to ensure the safety of people on land, on water and in the air. The company confirmed that the debris fell within the pre-planned Debris Response area and that the debris had no toxic materials that could harm marine life or water.