SpaceX loses spacecraft and successfully picks up Starship rocket booster

Yesterday, Thursday, SpaceX launched the giant Starship rocket in its latest test, but the spacecraft was destroyed after successfully picking up the booster returning to the launch pad.

The company said that the spacecraft’s six engines appeared to stop one after the other, and contact with it was lost 8 and a half minutes into the flight. The spacecraft was supposed to fly across the Gulf of Mexico from Texas on a path close to the Earth’s rotation similar to previous test flights. .

SpaceX provided the spacecraft with ten dummy satellites to practice launching them, and this was the first flight of the new and updated spacecraft.

A minute before that, SpaceX used its giant mechanical arms in the launch tower to catch the returning booster, as the descending booster was flying above the launch pad before it was caught by the arms.