The launch of SpaceX's Starship rocket, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk, ended in failure.. The upper part of the mega-rocket, that is, the Starship spacecraft, successfully separated from the launch vehicle, but exploded over the Atlantic Ocean. Its debris fell to Earth over the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British overseas territory.. Anadolu writes about this.

Contact with the rocket was lost 8.5 minutes into Thursday's unmanned flight..

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The spacecraft would fly over the Gulf of Mexico from Texas on a near-global loop, similar to earlier test flights. It carried 10 dummy satellites to practice deployment, marking the first flight of the upgraded vessel..

Despite failing to launch the spacecraft, the Super Heavy Booster, the first stage of SpaceX's reusable Starship rocket designed to provide powerful thrust, successfully returned to the launch pad as planned..

However, entertainment was guaranteed not only for Musk personally, but also for all those who unwittingly found themselves involved in the launch of his aircraft.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has already reported that flights at Miami and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airports in Florida were delayed by an hour due to a “rocket launch anomaly.”.

And the debris fell on the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, a British overseas territory that is popular among millionaires as a holiday destination..

Recall that in June 2024, one of the parts of the Chinese Changzheng-2C launch vehicle, which sent the Sino-French SVOM spacecraft into orbit, fell and exploded near a residential area in China.