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SpaceX says its Starship rocket broke up mid-flight as debris videos emerge online

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The rocket system's upper stage appears to have disintegrated somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico or possibly the Caribbean Sea .

Nobody was aboard Starship , which is still being tested for future missions to the moon and beyond.

SpaceX's seventh test flight of Starship started smoothly, with the booster returning to land intact at the launch site.

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