There is no crew on board the spacecraft, but it is carrying 10 dummy satellites for practice at releasing them SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight on Thursday, catching the booster back at the pad but losing contact with the ascending spacecraft as engines went out.

SpaceX launched the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday The company launched Starship from its private "Starbase" facility near Brownsville, Texas, shortly after 5:30 p.m. ET. In a crucial test,

SpaceX for the second time has used giant mechanical arms to catch its Starship rocket back at the pad minutes after liftoff. At the same time, the empty spacecraft launched from Texas Thursday soared across the Gulf of Mexico on a near loop around the world similar to previous test flights.