SpaceX released its investigations into the destruction of a Starship vehicle during a May 27 flight, and the June explosion of another on the ground.

SpaceX’s Starship 12 rocket had a successful launch Friday night, before concluding its test run around the Earth with a planned fireball explosion as it splashed down in the Indian Ocean. The rocket’s launch — the largest and most powerful of its kind — took place at around 6:30 p.

On Thursday evening, Blue Origin attempted to test fire its massive New Glenn rocket at its Florida launch site, but something went very wrong after engine ignition. The super heavy lift rocket exploded in spectacular and disastrous fashion.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully launched its Starship V3 rocket, which landed in a planned fiery explosion on Friday.

SpaceX launched its latest Starship test flight from Texas, with the spacecraft completing most mission objectives before exploding in the Indian Ocean after splashdown. View on euronews

The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years to come.

The first attempted launch on Thursday was postponed due to a malfunctioning hydraulic pin in the launch tower.

The destruction of Jeff Bezos's New Glenn rocket clouds NASA's lunar timeline and deepens reliance on SpaceX, as the U.S. races China to the moon.