Watch: SpaceX’s Starship explodes again in space

SpaceX’s massive Starship has exploded in space just minutes after lifting off from Texas. Following the explosion, the FAA to halt air traffic in parts of Florida.

This is the second straight failure for Elon Musk’s company this year in Mars rocket program.

The videos of the explosion went viral on social media showing fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas.

Shortly after the takeoff, it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off, a SpaceX live stream of the mission showed.

The failure of the eighth Starship test comes just over a month after the seventh also ended in an explosive failure.

The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, a setback for a program Musk had sought to speed up this year.

The 403-foot rocket is in Musk’s plans to send humans to Marsh as soon as the turn of the decade.

The rocket lifted off about 6:30pm ET (2330 GMT) from SpaceX’s sprawling Boca Chica, Texas, rocket facilities.

The Super Heavy first stage booster flew back to Earth as planned and was successfully grabbed in midair by a SpaceX crane.

However, minutes after, live stream showed the Starship upper stage spinning in space, while its rocket was showing multiple engine shut down.

Then the company said it had lost contact with the ship, and announcers immediately drew a connection to the previous flight.

“This in turn led to a loss of attitude control and ultimately a loss of communications with Starship,” the statement said. “Final contact with Starship came approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds after liftoff.”

It is worth mentioning here that the Starship failure in January ended eight minutes into flight when the rocket exploded.