SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, in second failure this year

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SpaceX's Starship spacecraft tumbled and exploded in space on Thursday (March 6) minutes after lifting off from Texas, dooming an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk's Mars rocket programme.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Whoa, oh my gosh.

00:02Social media videos showed debris from a failed SpaceX Starship test flight

00:07raining down from the skies above the Bahamas Thursday.

00:10It marks the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk's Mars rocket program.

00:16The Starship's flight lasted just minutes after lifting off from facilities at Boca Chica, Texas.

00:22A SpaceX live stream of the mission showed it tumbling uncontrollably after multiple engines shut down.

00:29Getting video down from the ship, you can see we've lost several engines

00:32and we've lost attitude control of the vehicle.

00:36It wasn't clear if the explosion was caused by SpaceX's automated flight termination system,

00:41which triggers when something on the rocket goes wrong.

00:44The Federal Aviation Administration briefly issued ground stops at airports in Miami,

00:49Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando because of space launch debris.

00:55It said it had opened a mishap investigation into the incident.

00:59The FAA said that means SpaceX must examine the failure's cause

01:03and get the agency's sign-off before Starship can fly again.

01:07SpaceX said there were no toxic materials among the debris.

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