FAA Grounds SpaceX Starship After Test Flight Failure

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Turks and Caicos Reports Damage From SpaceX Debris

The Federal Aviation Administration has joined officials in Turks and Caicos in investigating damage apparently caused by debris from the breakup of SpaceX's rocket during a test flight on Thursday. The FAA has grounded the Starship rocket in the meantime, NBC News reports. No injuries have been reported, the agency...

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FAA investigating Starship debris reports

The FAA says it is investigating reports that debris from the failed Starship test flight landed, and caused property damage in, the Turks and Caicos. The post FAA investigating Starship debris reports appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Airline blames rocket debris Elon Musk's SpaceX for flight delays

Qantas blames SpaceX rocket debris for flight delays, citing safety precautions over re-entering space junk.

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U.S. Grounds SpaceX Starship Rocket after Flight Test Explosion

U.S. grounded SpaceX Starship test flights after explosion mishap. Photo of Starship test flight 2 launch. Credit: Osunpokeh CC BY-SA 4.0 The US has grounded SpaceX’s Starship rocket while an investigation is carried out into why one exploded during its latest test flight on Thursday, BBC reported. The rocket’s upper stage broke up and disintegrated over the Caribbean after launching from Texas, forcing dozens of airline flights to alter course …

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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Friday that it left SpaceX's megarocket Starship on the ground pending an investigation by Elon Musk's company into why the top rocket module, an improved version, disintegrated on Thursday over the Caribbean during its last test flight.The unmanned device, the most ambitious ever built, exploded about eight minutes after the takeoff from Boca Chica (Texas, U.S.A.) on Thursday at around…

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The "Starship" rocket from the US space company SpaceX must remain on the ground for the time being after its failed test flight - krone.at reported. The US aviation authority FAA decided this on Friday and instructed the company of tech billionaire Elon Musk to conduct an investigation. Previously, the upper rocket stage exploded over the Caribbean during a test flight on Friday. The largest rocket system ever built was therefore unable to comp…