The first launch attempt was scrubbed Monday due to a frozen valve.
SpaceX attempted a second launch of its Starship rocket Thursday morning after the first launch attempt was scrubbed due to a frozen valve in the pressurization system.
The launch took place at the company's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, about 20 miles east of Brownsville. The rocket was forced to self-destruct minutes after liftoff when the boosters failed to separate.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk congratulated the team in a tweet and said the next launch would be later this year, but didn't give any specific dates.
"Congrats SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship!" Musk tweeted. "Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months."
Musk also shared a video of the Starship rocket right after liftoff.
SpaceX congratulated the team behind the Starship rocket launch, even after it was forced to self-destruct when the boosters failed to separate.
"With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary," SpaceX tweeted.
"Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting first integrated flight test of Starship!"
SpaceX said the team will be reviewing the data and working towards its next launch attempt.
SpaceX was able to get its Starship rocket off the pad, but all didn't go as planned.
About three minutes into flight, "Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation," SpaceX tweeted.
Therefore, SpaceX was forced to abort the mission and blow up the rocket, but the team says it's more of "success" than they hoped for.
Starship launched at 9:33 a.m. ET, just five minutes after the launch window opened, on its inaugural flight.
The shuttle is currently the largest spacecraft in the world at about 393 feet and is expected to eventually carry passengers to the moon and Mars in a similar vein to NASA's Artemis mission.
Starship is designed to carry up to 100 people on long-duration, interplanetary flights.
