FAA Halts Flights After Musk’s Starship Rocket Explodes and Rains Down Debris
The Federal Aviation Administration halted flights at multiple Florida airports after a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded on Thursday night.
Like the launch of SpaceX’s seventh Starship test flight, the eighth attempt also ended in the craft’s disintegration. About eight minutes after it launched from Brownsville, Texas, several engines appeared to fail, and the 400-foot-tall rocket was last seen spinning before communication was lost. Several users on social media posted videos of the rocket breaking apart and falling earthward.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk serves as a White House adviser to President Donald Trump. Musk’s companies – including SpaceX – have billions of dollars in contracts with the federal government, raising questions about his conflicts of interest, which the White House has said Musk will self-police.CNN aviation correspondent Pete Muntean reported that the FAA had stopped all flights into Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, and Orlando until 8 p.m. ET over concerns about falling “space launch debris.” Source
Just saw Starship 8 blow up in the Bahamas @SpaceX @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/rTMJu23oVx
— Jonathon Norcross (@NorcrossUSA) March 6, 2025
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