SPACE X’s Starship rocket has exploded during a test flight again – sending blazing debris across the sky and grounding several flights in Florida.

The 403-foot rocket lifted off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, at around 6.30pm local time but went into an uncontrolled spin just minutes later.

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Debris streaking through the sky after SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft tumbled and exploded in spaceCredit: Reuters

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Debris from the launch was seen reentering the Earth’s atmosphere near the Turks and Caicos IslandsCredit: X / @OSINTdefender

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A passenger on a commercial flight to Florida also managed to get the stunning scenes from his windowCredit: X / @OSINTdefender

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The re-entry of debris scattered in the sky over the BahamasCredit: X / @OSINTdefender
Thursday’s explosion marked yet another flopped launch in just months for Elon Musk’s space company.

Engines on top of Starship began shutting down as it streaked eastward, and contact was lost.

The flight was meant to end with a controlled descent over the Indian Ocean.

Incredible footage circulating on social media shows the dramatic breakup of SpaceX’s Starship as it reentered Earth’s atmosphere near the Turks and Caicos Islands.

One clip, filmed by a passenger onboard a commercial flight near Florida and the Lucayan Archipelago, captures the rocket’s disintegration in a fiery cascade of debris streaking across the night sky.

Additional footage taken over the Bahamas shows glowing fragments tumbling towards the ocean, lighting up the darkness like a meteor shower.

Bret Bostwick was watching the launch with his children from a catamaran near Ragged Island in the Bahamas when the blast happened.

He told Sky News: “I was watching with my boys, seven and nine years old, and then all of a sudden, you know, boom!