The FAA said it issued a license authorizing the SpaceX Starship Flight 8 launch for the combined Starship/Super Heavy vehicle from Boca Chica, Texas after the company completed a required safety review overseen by the agency.
The FAA has given its approval for the next flight of SpaceX’s Starship even while the investigation into the failed previous flight continues.
Orlando International Airport officials announced they were briefly under a Federal Aviation Administration "ground stop" because of space launch debris.
Federal regulators have closed an investigation into what went wrong when a SpaceX Starship spacecraft — part of the most powerful launch system ever constructed — exploded during a January test flight.
Por Jackie Wattles, CNN Los reguladores federales despejaron el camino para que SpaceX lance otro vuelo de prueba después de que su nave espacial Starship —parte del sistema de lanzamiento más poderos
The explosion of SpaceX's Starship disrupted over 240 flights, causing concerns about space debris. The spacecraft exploded soon after launch, marking the second failure this year for the Mars rocket program.
FAA investigators working to figure out what caused the SpaceX spacecraft to break into pieces shortly after liftoff on Thursday night. NBC’s Marissa Parra reports for Saturday TODAY.
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Yet again, one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets exploded on Thursday night, grounding flights across Florida as fiery debris fell from the sky. In its eighth test flight, the 400-foot rocket launched from Brownsville, Texas, and exploded shortly after experiencing engine failure upon reaching space and spinning out of control.
Astronauts orbiting 250 miles above Earth got a front-row seat to destruction on Thursday. During a SpaceX flight test of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket and spacecraft system, NASA 's Don Pettit snapped photos from the International Space Station of the ship blowing up.