Starship took its eighth flight test Thursday, and SpaceX successfully caught the booster but later lost attitude control and contact with the spacecraft.

Like last time, Starship had four mock satellites to eject once the craft reached space on this eighth test flight as a practice for future missions. They resembled SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites, thousands of which currently orbit Earth, and were meant to fall back down following their brief taste of space.

Its last launch on Jan. 16 failed right after liftoff when the upper stage of SpaceX's uncrewed Starship rocket exploded minutes after liftoff, leading the aerospace company to declare the vessel a "loss." It was the seventh test flight of the heavy-lift spacecraft.