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In this screen grab taken from the SpaceX broadcast the Starship's Super Heavy Booster is being grappled mid-air as it returns to the launch pad at Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on January 16, 2025

US Grounds SpaceX's Starship Rocket Pending Probe

The US Federal Aviation Administration on Friday grounded SpaceX's Starship pending an investigation by Elon Musk's company into why the rocket's upper stage dramatically disintegrated in a fiery cascade over the Caribbean during its latest test flight.

SpaceX Catches Starship Booster Again, But Upper Stage Explodes

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The FlightAware tracker showed several planes in the Atlantic altering course near the Turks and Caicos Islands, while users on X shared dramatic footage purportedly capturing the spaceship breaking apart in a fiery cascade during atmospheric re-entry.
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A man watches a SpaceX plane as it flies past the SpaceX Starship at the launch pad ahead of its sixth flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas

SpaceX Fails To Repeat Starship Booster Catch, As Trump Looks On

SpaceX's Starship megarocket blasted off on its latest test flight Tuesday, with President-elect Donald Trump joining Elon Musk to witness the spectacle. But he was deprived of the chance to see the booster stage caught in the launch tower's "chopstick" arms,

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