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A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to change course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program. SpaceX mission control lost contact with the newly upgraded Starship, which was carrying its first test payload of mock satellites but no crew, eight minutes after liftoff from its South Texas rocket facilities. Video shot by Reuters showed orange balls of light streaking across the sky over the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, leaving trails of smoke behind. ▲ SpaceX's Starship rocket launches from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Eric Gay/AP Elon Musk's company said Starship broke apart — what it called a "rapid unscheduled disassembly". "We did lose all communications with the ship," SpaceX Communications Manager Dan Huot said. The last time a Starship upper stage failed was in March last year, as it was reentering Earth's atmosphere
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