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ANGER as Musks STARSHIP EXPLODES-MASSIVE Debris Interferes With Flights-Causes DELAYS
ANGER as Musks STARSHIP EXPLODES -MASSIVE Debris Interferes With Flights - Causing DELAYS
WHOLE of Caribbean Airspace Closed
SpaceX launch accident likely caused by fire that sent trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean
AP 17 JAN 2025
SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean.
SpaceXs Elon Musk said preliminary indications are that leaking fuel built up pressure in the cavity above the engine firewall. The resulting fire would have doomed the spacecraft.
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered SpaceX to investigate what went wrong. The FAA said there were no reports of injuries from Starship debris.
The 400-foot Starship ? the worlds biggest and most powerful rocket ? launched from the southern tip of Texas on a test flight early Thursday evening.
The booster made it back to the pad for a catch by giant mechanical arms, only the second time in Starship history. But the engines on the still ascending spacecraft shut down one by one, and communication was lost 8 1/2 minutes into the flight.
Dramatic video taken near the Turks and Caicos Islands showed spacecraft debris raining down from the sky in a stream of fireballs. Flights near the falling debris had to be diverted OR CANCELLED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUimsy5IJyA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6hIXB62bUE
Billionaire Space Race: Musk and Bezos Compete for Space Conquest
Bezos must be laughing his head off at Musks disaster....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJQTdLXzSzU
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