While the Starship is lost, the mission's first-stage booster successfully returned to the launch tower, where it was caught by the tower's robotic arms.
Dramatic footage showing streaks of light zipping across the sky surfaced online following Elon Musk's Starship explosion over the Atlantic Ocean.
Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.
SpaceX confirmed the upper stage had undergone "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the company's euphemism for an explosion.
Blue Origin scored a major win with its New Glenn rocket launch, but SpaceX still leads the space industry with a Falcon fleet and upcoming Starship.
The incident in which a SpaceX rocket broke up after launch demonstrates the challenges the FAA will face as the number of commercial space flights increases.
The uncrewed Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first flight launch of 2025 that blasted off from south Texas.
The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to investigate what went wrong on their respective
Tech magnate and DOGE Co-chairman Elon Musk reportedly plans to buy the Washington, D.C.-based Line hotel to turn it into a "private social club."
Ritesh Agarwal, the founder and CEO of OYO, has shared his experience after meeting Elon Musk at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas. Agarwal, along with a delegation of India ’s top entrepreneurs, was hosted by Musk for a tour of the facility and witnessed the launch and booster catch of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 7.
The FAA is requiring an investigation after a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded yesterday eight and a half minutes into the company’s seventh flight test of the upgraded vehicle.