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Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, Musk’s company, SpaceX, launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.
Newsweek reached out for comment to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) via email on Thursday night.
Minutes after lift-off and booster separation, a video live feed showed the upper stage tumbling uncontrollably, with signal soon cutting out. “Can confirm we did lose contact with the ship. Unfortunately,