SpaceX loses contact with Starship rocket.

SpaceX's Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, has again failed to launch, posing a new obstacle to US efforts in exploring the moon and Mars.

SpaceX's Starship rocket was launched in Texas.

Reuters reported on March 7th that SpaceX lost contact with its Starship rocket system just minutes after launch in Texas, in its second consecutive failure.

Live footage of the launch showed that billionaire Elon Musk's company lost control of Starship and the engines shut down.

The launch took place nearly two months after another Starship rocket exploded, sending debris crashing into the British Turks and Caicos Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. In the latest launch, conducted on the evening of March 6 (local time), the 123-meter-long rocket was launched, and the first stage was then held in place at the launch pad by giant mechanical arms.

According to the original plan, the rocket would continue its flight eastward to a controlled location in the Indian Ocean. The spacewalk was expected to last an hour, performing a test to retrieve a satellite that was left unfinished after the failed launch in January.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is closely monitoring the launch, having already placed an order for Starship to take astronauts to the moon this decade. Billionaire Musk also plans to aim for Mars with Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket.

According to AP, as before, Starship had four dummy satellites to launch when the spacecraft reached space during this eighth test flight. These resembled SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites and were expected to fall back down.

Components such as Starship's computers and fuel systems were redesigned to prepare for the next major step: returning the spacecraft to its launch site, much like a rocket booster.

During its January launch, SpaceX successfully captured the booster rocket at the launch pad, but Starship exploded minutes later over the Atlantic Ocean. According to an ongoing investigation, a fuel leak caused a series of fires that shut down the rocket's engines, triggering its self-destruct system.

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