AN exploding SpaceX Starship caused chaos in the sky – as planes swerved to avoid it and the flaming wreck caused property damage. Flights of the Elon Musk rocket system have now been

The FAA has grounded SpaceX's Starship pending an investigation into why the rocket's upper stage dramatically disintegrated in its latest flight.

Hawaii and Texas residents showed up to an FAA meeting to oppose the SpaceX plan to increase the number of launches and landings per year.

The latest test of Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship, gargantuan next-generation megarocket, ended with the upper stage dramatically disintegrating over the Atlantic,forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris.

SpaceX launched Starship on Thursday for a seventh test flight, after weather concerns pushed back an experiment that will feature the spacecraft’s first payload deployment test, and while it successfully caught the Super Heavy Booster, Starship lost connection and “experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.”

Disruption from increasing rocket launches is becoming a growing issue for commercial airlines

SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight, an unexpected setback after the Elon Musk-led company had made steady progress advancing the vehicle’s capabilities.

SpaceX, the private space technology company owned by Elon Musk, is asking federal authorities to approve a new round of tests for a prototype reusable rocket, but some of them may never make it back to the surface intact and will crash in the ocean.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has indicated that an oxygen or fuel leak above the ship engine firewall could have caused the spacecraft's breakup. He posted this theory on his social media platform X, where he also suggested adding fire suppression and possibly increasing vent area as possible solutions.

A SpaceX Starship rocket suffered a catastrophic failure minutes after launching from Texas, impacting Elon Musk's space exploration plans. The rocket broke up in space, causing airlines to reroute flights over the Gulf of Mexico.