We wrote yesterday that a test-fire of a SpaceX rocket didn’t exactly go according to plan: it blew up on the launch pad. What we didn’t know at the time of writing is that Facebook’s internet-providing satellite for Africa was destroyed in the blast.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was naturally not very pleased with it.

“As I’m here in Africa, I’m deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX’s launch failure destroyed our satellite that would have provided connectivity to so many entrepreneurs and everyone else across the continent,” he wrote on his Facebook page. He was in Nigeria at the time.

Zuckerberg explained that connectivity in Africa wasn’t solely relied upon with this launch, and thankfully it has other options available until a new satellite can be sent into space.

“Fortunately, we have developed other technologies like Aquila that will connect people as well. We remain committed to our mission of connecting everyone, and we will keep working until everyone has the opportunities this satellite would have provided.”

Aquila is the company’s internet-beaming drones project.

The cost of the satellite is rumoured to be around $200 million, but Zuckerberg added in the comments of his post that money wasn’t the issue here; “…it’s that now it may take longer to connect people,” he said.

A number of videos of the explosion have surfaced since the blast; the one below shows a close-up of the exact moment.