SpaceX tested its huge Starship launch system for the eighth time on Thursday. The company caught the booster out of midair, but lost another upper stage in space.

SpaceX has launched the eighth test flight of its Starship megarocket. The mission is designed to achieve objectives that weren’t met during a previous fiery flight.

SpaceX's eighth flight test of its Starship spacecraft ended with a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the company said. Contact with the ship was lost about nine minutes after the launch.

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.

After SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded during a test flight in January, the company had hoped its nect launch attempt would go better. But again, controllers lost contact with the upper-stage vehicle.

SpaceX's eighth Starship test flight ended in fiery wreckage falling to the Earth on Thursday night, marking the latest explosion for the launch vehicle championed by the Elon Musk-owned space company.