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SpaceX Starship Explodes and Rains Rocket Debris Across Caribbean, Weeks After Similar Disaster

HeadlineMar 07, 2025

There’s been another disaster involving Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company. On Thursday, SpaceX launched the eighth test flight of its giant experimental rocket Starship. Several minutes into flight, the vehicle’s second stage began tumbling out of control and reentered the atmosphere above the Bahamas, creating an artificial meteor shower that rained debris across the Caribbean. The FAA halted flights into several Florida airports, and multiple airliners were rerouted around the debris field. The FAA allowed SpaceX to proceed with Thursday’s launch even though the agency has an open mishap investigation into Starship’s previous flight in January, which also ended in an explosion that littered debris over the islands of Turks and Caicos.

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