SpaceX Starship rocket reaches space during second test launch

SpaceX has lost contact with its Starship mega rocket during its second test flight from southern Texas.

The 397ft rocket - the largest and most powerful ever built - arced out over the Gulf of Mexico after blasting off, with SpaceX aiming to separate the spaceship from its booster and send it into space.

After the booster separated from the main ship, the rocket reached space for the first time, following the failure of its inaugural mission in April.

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[jamielonsdale]

Glad to see the charge they used on the revised flight termination system is a lot better than the previous one.

[borusa]

Rapid unscheduled dissasembly-classic!

[johnkeane]

Rapid unexpected disassembly, aka it exploded

[nicksavage]

BOOSTER BLEW💥UP
NOT BEFORE COMPLETING ITS JOB
AND DID NOT DAMAGE
UPPER STAGE 🎉
The Future of Space
Exploration

[SpiritualHealing-we]

"Quick unscheduled disassembly" Good!😘

[sonofsamwaters]

Today I learned "lost contact" is the new euphemism for "their thing blew up. Again.".

[hongry-life]

But why focus on the booster that looks like the rocket all the time?

[Cornz]

Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. Or, it's just blown up in plain English.

[Joy]

Why do the rockets lean over instead of flying straight up???

[HTtwentyten]

Big win for Life's chances at survival, in a dangerous universe.

[Spiderdan-]

Is this that plane that takes people into space?? If so remember the thing that tries to reach the titanic?? Imploded on itself, whose to say something similar or explosion wont happen up there??

[LauraJonas-drzg]

It hit the firmament. How many times will he attempt punching a hole in the firmament or cracking it, and expect a diffrent result? Hes been lying to everyone mars jupiter, saturn are beside us on the same plane each having its own firmament and the same waters surrounding all the firmaments. Each and every dome collectively covered by 1 huge firmament or dome

[machomann]

WHY is this such a BIG deal? NOT like we haven't done it MANY times before... Right?

[recifebra]

Wow an actual decent title by mainstream media??

[shaun]

i wonder why they had no video feed, that's unusual for spacex? I'm speculating either a rushed launch with none installed, or a failure during the launch as they did lose contact? but still a sight to behold...a skyscraper sized rocket doing a loop to come home.

[cityplanconsultores]

They should have ordered THE RosCOSMOS, THEY WOULD ALREADY BE ON MARS

[JordanWallace-nbid]

Not going to get past the Firmament, EVER

[davidbrandie]

so Elon Musk was actually on board wow ! what a guy !

[iizfiqt]

I'm holding off on buying a ticket.
What is the carbon footprint for that?

[deepakkunar]

LMAO 😅😅😂 wrost launch I've seen ever in my life ISRO is the best Indian space research organisation