Published on 18 Jan 2025 on Benzinga
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and authorities from the Turks and Caicos Islands have initiated investigations into the recent explosion of SpaceX’s Starship rocket.
What Happened: A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship suffered a mid-flight explosion over the Bahamas, just eight minutes into its seventh test launch from Texas. The incident scattered debris across the northern Caribbean.