Billionaire Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX launched its Starship rocket into space on Saturday, hitting several new achievements on the rocket’s second launch attempt.
Starship reportedly flew for seven minutes after launch and managed to separate from its booster before initiating a self-destruction sequence mid-air.
“We have lost the data from the second stage … what we do believe right now is that the Automated Flight Termination System on the second stage appears to have triggered very late in the burn,” said SpaceX principal integration engineer John Insprucker.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration will now review a “mishap” from Saturday’s launch before SpaceX will be able to conduct a tertiary Starship launch attempt.
