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

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.”

SpaceX’s ambitious Starship rocket program faced another challenge as its latest test ended with the spacecraft disintegrating mid-air. The uncrewed rocket, launched from SpaceX’s South Texas facility,