SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket blows up in ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’, says company - Thursday’s Starship flight test, which saw the upper stage disappear while approaching orbital velocity, come

For the second time, SpaceX used giant mechanical arms to catch its Starship rocket back at the pad minutes after liftoff Thursday. At the same time, the empty spacecraft launched from Texas soared across the Gulf of Mexico on a near loop around the world similar to previous test flights.