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After the explosion of a SpaceX spaceship ship, a cloud of rubble is seen high above the horizon of the earth, as can be seen on March 6, 2025 from the international space station. | Credit: Stefanie Waldek, used with permission
SpaceX’s most recent spaceship to try to achieve space exploded nine minutes after starting this week and leaving a trail of rubble. Airports in Florida were forced to stop the flights because the threats to the south extended to the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.
Now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) again calls on SpaceX to carry out a misfortune examination about what ends your eighth Starship test flight with a loss of the vehicle. The rocket started on Thursday (March 7) by SpaceX ‘Starbase Facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas. It was the second start of the company in a row to close with an explosion (his Starship Flight 7 test fulfilled a similar fate in January) and came when the examination of the previous “misfortune” was still completed.
“A misfortune examination is intended to improve public security, determine the basic cause of the event and identify corrective measures to avoid that it takes place again,” wrote the FAA in a statement. “The FAA will be involved in every step of SpaceX’s misfortune examination process and must approved SpaceX’s final report, including all corrective measures.”
Starship followed his planned trajectory when an “energetic event” in the rarity of the spaceship “caused” the loss of some of his engines in an “energetic event” “, SpaceX wrote in a after-flight report published on his website. The communication was then lost with the steel spaceecraft, with the final contact in 9 minutes and 30 seconds in flight to flight is present.
“Starship flew within a defined start corridor to protect the public on site and on water and in the air,” wrote the company. “After the anomaly, the SpaceX teams immediately started coordination with the FAA, ATO (air traffic control) and other security officers to implement planned emergency responses.”
One of the last framework of the video that was sent back before a SpaceX starship before communication was lost and on March 6, 2025 it exploded loan: SpaceX
Airports in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando slowed -down aircraft in front of the area in which Space vehicles fell, or stopped aircraft before they leave as a reaction to a warning sent by the FAA. As soon as the threat had passed, the normal operations resumed.
“A rubble reaction area is only activated if the space vehicle has an anomaly, with ruins outside the identified danger areas.
A SpaceX Super Heavy Booster can be seen in Silhouette when he approaches his starting tower to be caught in the air for reuse on March 6, 2025. | Credit: SpaceX
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If a debris made it to the ground, SpaceX said that it would have fallen in a planned area. Surviving pieces included no toxic materials and, according to SpaceX, were safe for marine animals and water quality.
However, if a debris is found, the company said that it should be reported to the local authorities or the SpaceX debris hotline (1-866-623-0234 or recovery@space.com).
The Starship Start Booster, which SpaceX calls Super Heavy, successfully separated from the vehicle and for the third time it was returning to his starting point, where it was caught on his starting tower in the air by Melsstick-like arms.
“With such a test comes the success of what we learn and [Thursday’s] The flight will help us improve the reliability of the Starship, “wrote SpaceX.
SpaceX’s ability to fly again is based on the FAA, which determines that “every system, procedure or a procedure in connection with the misfortune have no effect on public security,” wrote the FAA officials.
