SpaceX Starship Fails Again: Second Consecutive Test Flight Ends in Mid-Air Breakup

SpaceX Starship Fails Again: Second Consecutive Test Flight Ends in Mid-Air Breakup

SpaceX’s Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. Image Credits:SpaceX The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) briefly halted flights into major Florida airports and appears to have diverted some others out of caution of “space launch debris.” The agency said that it is requiring SpaceX to perform what’s known as a mishap investigation into the failure. The company launched Starship using its Super Heavy booster and things looked normal for the first eight minutes of the flight. The ship successfully separated and headed into space, while the booster came back to the company’s launchpad in Texas, where it was caught for a third time by the launch tower. But at around eight minutes and nine seconds into the flight, SpaceX’s broadcast graphics showed Starship lose multiple Raptor engines on the vehicle. On-board footage showed the ship started spirali…