SpaceX has misplaced contact with its Starship mega rocket following a sequence of explosions yesterday throughout its second take a look at flight.
The two-stage rocketship blasted off from a launch web site close to Boca Chica in Texas and travelled over the Gulf of Mexico.
It had been hoped that the Starship would attain an altitude of 150 miles earlier than plunging into the Pacific close to Hawaii 90 minutes after lift-off.
Mr Musk, who owns SpaceX, shared footage of the second that the rocket took off and within the caption on Twitter, stated: “Magnificent Machine with a 1000 ft plume.”
It had initially appeared to achieve success but it surely exploded a brief time later.
SpaceX’s livestream host John Insprucker stated: “We have lost the data from the second stage… we think we may have lost the second stage.”
The first try led to an explosion earlier this 12 months.