SpaceX Starship test fails after Texas launch

The latest trial of Space X's elephantine Starship rocket has failed, minutes aft launch.

Officials astatine Elon Musk's institution said the precocious signifier was mislaid aft problems developed aft lift-off from Texas connected Thursday.

The ngo came hours aft the archetypal formation of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket system, backed by Amazon brag Jeff Bezos.

The 2 tech billionaires some privation to predominate the abstraction conveyance market.

"Starship experienced a accelerated unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn. Teams volition proceed to reappraisal information from today's formation trial to amended recognize basal cause," SpaceX posted connected X.

"With a trial similar this, occurrence comes from what we learn, and today's formation volition assistance america amended Starship's reliability."

SpaceX's Starship strategy had lifted disconnected from Boca Chica, Texas, astatine 17:38 EST (22:38 GMT) successful the company's seventh trial mission.

The Starship precocious signifier separated from its Super Heavy booster astir 4 minutes into formation arsenic planned.

But past SpaceX Communications Manager Dan Huot reported connected a unrecorded watercourse that ngo teams had mislaid interaction with the ship.

In a webcast, SpaceX's Kate Tice said: "At this constituent successful time, we tin corroborate we did suffer the ship."

"We ever knew that excitement is guaranteed today, occurrence not guaranteed," she added.