The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world before succumbing to the scorching heat of atmospheric reentry. In June, the fourth test flight ended with controlled splashdowns of the rocket's Super Heavy booster in the Gulf of Mexico and of Starship in the Indian Ocean.

SpaceX's Starship Flight 7, launched at 4:37 PM CST from Starbase, Texas, US, has been confirmed to fail The spacecraft broke apart, with debris spotted reentering Earth's atmosphere over the Turks and Caicos Islands pic.twitter.com/kVDyAcTRZQ