Hawaii and Texas residents showed up to an FAA meeting to oppose the SpaceX plan to increase the number of launches and landings per year.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told TechCrunch it had to "briefly" slow and divert a number of aircraft in the airspace near Puerto Rico, where

The FAA has ordered SpaceX to investigate what caused on of the company's Starships to explode over Turks and Caicos Thursday.

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 mission control lost contact with the newly upgraded Starship, carrying its first test payload of mock satellites but no crew, eight minutes after liftoff.

A SpaceX Starship rocket suffered a catastrophic failure minutes after launching from Texas, impacting Elon Musk's space exploration plans. The rocket broke up in space, causing airlines to reroute flights over the Gulf of Mexico.

Disruption from increasing rocket launches is becoming a growing issue for commercial airlines

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to X on Thursday night to explain what his company believes may have caused part of the Starship rocket to experience a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded SpaceX’s Starship on Friday following its spectacular disintegration during a test mission over the Caribbean. Elon Musk’s

The US has grounded SpaceX's giant Starship rocket while an investigation is carried out into why one exploded during its latest test flight. The rocket's upper stage dramatically broke up and disintegrated over the Caribbean after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights to alter course to avoid falling debris.