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Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space

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SpaceX launches upgraded version of its Starship rocket from South Texas .

The test flight ended less than nine minutes later after engineers lost contact with the spacecraft.

The rocket's upper stage broke apart in space or experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" in SpaceX-speak.

There were no people or satellites aboard the rocket Thursday .