The Federal Aviation Administration will require SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation following the apparent midair explosion of Starship S33 during the company’s seventh suborbital Starship test flight on Thursday, the agency announced Friday morning.
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The Federal Aviation Administration will require SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation following the apparent midair explosion of Starship S33 during the company’s seventh suborbital Starship test flight on Thursday, the agency announced Friday morning.
The Starship lost at least three of its engines in the seconds leading up to the ship’s destruction, which occurred about eight-and-half minutes after the launch from Boca Chica Beach, when SpaceX mission control lost contact with the vehicle. The uncrewed, experimental prototype had reached a speed of approximately 13,246 mph and an altitude of more than 90 miles when contact was lost, according to telemetry data transmitted up to that point.