On Saturday morning, just shy of seven months after SpaceX’s first Starship test launch exploded midair minutes into flight, the company conducted the second test launch, with mixed results.

On the upside, SpaceX’s mission of flying as much as possible and learning from previous mistakes seems to have paid off.

As of now, it looks like the company managed to launch the rocket without setting fire to the vegetation around its launchpad on the edge of the South Texas Coast, thanks to a newly installed water deluge system that kept dust, debris and flames from flying off the launchpad into the surrounding area when Starship lifts off. Plus, the Federal Aviation Administration received no reports of property damage in the area with this second test launch, although FAA officials are investigating the rocket’s explosion.

The rocket launched a little after 7 a.m. from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch site located just outside of Brownsville, juddering across clear blue sky propelled by all 33 of the Super Heavy booster’s engines. (Last time only 31 managed to light.)

Then the rocket went into the second “hot” stage, described by the SpaceX launch webcast’s commentators as the stage that puts the most stress on the spacecraft—and the point when the previous test rocket exploded before completing the separation.

This time around the spacecraft once again began flipping through the air to start the process of separating from the Super Heavy booster and lighting the six engines in the upper stage that would propel the spacecraft into space. At just under three minutes, Starship completed the process with a flash showing that the Super Heavy had been disconnected, while the crowd watching the launch from SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California could be heard vigorously celebrating on the webcast video.

From there, the booster was supposed to drop down into the Gulf of Mexico, but roughly 30 seconds after completing stage two there was another flash as the Super Heavy became a ball of flames midair.

However, the spacecraft was still aloft, the commentators noted. If it had continued on its flight, Starship would have traveled halfway around the world before plunking into the Pacific Ocean just a couple hundred miles from Hawaii. But that didn’t happen. Although Starship reached an altitude of 90 miles as it headed toward orbit, SpaceX lost contact with the vehicle which was intentionally destroyed via its flight detonation system.

So, yeah, once again SpaceX has got another blown up rocket for its efforts, but they got a lot farther – 90 miles up, to be exact – than they did before. The company is contracted with NASA to tote astronauts to the moon for the first mission to the lunar southern poles in 2025 (already expected to be pushed to 2026) and the second crewed landing, scheduled for 2028. NASA officials have said they will require SpaceX to complete just under 20 launches before Starship heads from the earth to the moon. Let’s hope some of them don’t blow up.