SpaceX Loses Contact with Starship During Eighth Test Flight

The world's largest rocket reached nearly 150 kilometers before losing control, marking the third failed Starship test this year.

SpaceX's Starship launched from Boca Chica, Texas, but contact with the spacecraft was lost minutes after liftoff.
The rocket reached an altitude of almost 150 kilometers before its engines began shutting down and it fell out of control.
This marks the third failed test flight for Starship in 2025, with a previous launch in January ending in an explosion and debris falling in the Caribbean.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had only recently lifted a temporary flight ban imposed after earlier failures, following modifications to the rocket’s upper stage.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to develop Starship as a fully reusable rocket for deploying large satellites and enabling human missions to the Moon and Mars, with NASA already planning to use it for future lunar missions.