SpaceX’s Starship got out of control while he was in space during a test flight on Thursday, with the second launch in a row that the vehicle had a fatal problem on the way to orbit.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Stopped briefly flights to major airports in Florida and seems to be to distract Some others from the caution of “space -launch debris.” The agency told TechCrunch that it is necessary to perform SpaceX known as an accident investigation into the failure.

The company launched Starship with the help of its super -heavy booster and things looked normal for the first eight minutes of the flight. The ship successfully separated and entered space while the booster returned to the company’s launch path in Texas, where it was captured For a third time through the launch tower.

But at about eight minutes and nine seconds after the flight, SpaceX’s broadcasting graphing showed that Starship lost several Raptor engines on the vehicle. Footage on board showed that the ship began to turn the end across the ocean.

“We just saw some engines going out, it looks like our attitude control over the ship,” SpaceX manager Dan Huot said at the broadcast. “At this point we lost contact with the ship.”

Footage Posted on social media showed that the ship is breaking over the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic A A few minutes later. The company posted to X that it “immediately begins to coordinate with safety officials to implement pre -planned contingency reactions.”

The high-profile-back-to-back explosions came when SpaceX CEO Elon Musk spent the past few weeks to cause chaos in the US federal government with its effectiveness of the Department of Government. This includes deploying employees to the FAA, which oversees SpaceX’s flights.

SpaceX hoped to deploy four dummy versions of its Starlink Satellites during Thursday’s Test flight, a step towards the purpose of using Starship for commercial missions. The company has deliberately developed starskip by quickly doing succession test flights and learning from the things that go right and wrong.

But the failure of Thursday comes just a few weeks after the seventh Test flight, which spectacularly broke the islands of Turks & Caicos, causing the FAA to transfer a number of flights in that airspace.

SpaceX investigated an accident to the failure. The company has determined that propellant leaks within Starship, which caused fires and a communication eclipse with the ship before it is self -destructive.

Before this test flight, SpaceX said it made improvements to the lines that send fuel to Starship’s engines and changed the temperature of the propellant. It also added extra openings and “a new purification system” to better hedge against any leaks.

On some of his previous Test flights, Spacex saw its starship breaking up as he tried to re -enter the Earth’s atmosphere. The company rolled out changes on the seventh test flight that were supposed to help learn how to better prepare the ship to survive the re -entry.

“With Flight 8, we are focused on finding the actual boundaries of Starship, so we can prepare to eventually return Starship to the launch website and catch it,” have On X on Thursday.

This story has been updated with the reaction of the FAA.