SpaceX made multiple changes in the wake of a January Starship failure, only to suffer a second straight vehicle breakup Thursday.

SpaceX's Starship launch faced a delay due to technical issues at the 40-second countdown mark. This setback follows a previous test explosion. Starship aims for future moon landings with NASA and Mars settlements by Elon Musk.

SpaceX’s mammoth Starship spun wildly out of control and broke apart during its eighth test flight, another setback for Elon Musk’s company less than two months after its last mission ended with an explosion.

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft tumbled and exploded in space on Thursday 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 program.

SpaceX launched another Starship rocket Thursday but lost the vehicle’s spacecraft not long after liftoff, the second such setback in a row for Elon Musk’s company.Minutes after launch, the rocket began experiencing problems while it ascended and it later exploded.

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.