SpaceX conducted the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, but the mission hit a setback as the company lost contact with the upper stage, which is now drifting in space. This poses a challenge to Elon Musk's ambitious goal of colonising Mars.
The live webcast of the launch abruptly stopped transmitting data from Starship around nine minutes after liftoff. SpaceX senior manager of quality systems engineering Kate Tice said, 'We can confirm that we did lose the ship.'
