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SpaceX’s built-in Starship spacecraft efficiently took off from its launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday however didn’t handle to totally full its check flight. The spacecraft spun uncontrolled earlier than bursting right into a ball of flames about 4 minutes into its flight, chopping the check brief.

In a press release on Twitter, SpaceX mentioned, “Starship skilled a speedy unscheduled disassembly earlier than stage separation.” Throughout in the present day’s 90-minute check flight, Starship was supposed to succeed in an altitude of about 150 miles throughout a journey across the globe earlier than splashing down into the Pacific Ocean close to Hawaii. SpaceX scrubbed its first check flight try on April seventeenth as a consequence of a “frozen” pressurant valve.

The 394-foot launch system, which is comprised of the Tremendous Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft, is understood collectively as Starship. SpaceX’s Tremendous Heavy booster comes geared up with 33 highly effective Falcon Raptor engines and is designed to be reusable. Nonetheless, SpaceX wasn’t going to reap the benefits of this characteristic this time round, because the booster was purported to drop into the Gulf of Mexico shortly after launch as a substitute of making an attempt to land upright.

In accordance with SpaceX, the aim of in the present day’s check was to “inform and enhance the likelihood of success sooner or later as SpaceX quickly advances growth of Starship,” even when issues don’t go as deliberate through the flight. SpaceX’s launch system will finally assist ferry each astronauts and cargo to the Moon, Mars, and past. It’s the identical system that NASA will use to carry astronauts again to the Moon through the Artemis III mission in 2025.

Replace April twentieth, 9:48AM ET: Up to date to notice that the flight was lower brief.