{"id":20363,"date":"2025-01-17T22:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T23:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20363"},"modified":"2025-01-17T23:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T23:25:47","slug":"f-a-a-temporarily-halts-launches-of-musks-starship-after-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20363","title":{"rendered":"F.A.A. Temporarily Halts Launches of Musk\u2019s Starship After Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The agency launched an investigation into the \u201cspace vehicle mishap\u201d on Thursday night that forced commercial flights to divert and caused debris to rain toward Caribbean islands.<\/p>\n

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The urgent radio calls by the air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration office in Puerto Rico started to go out on Thursday evening as a SpaceX test flight exploded and debris began to rain toward the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Flights near Puerto Rico needed to avoid passing through the area \u2014 or risk being hit by falling chunks of the Starship, the newest and biggest of Elon Musk\u2019s rockets.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpace vehicle mishap,\u201d an air traffic controller said over the F.A.A. radio system<\/a>, as onlookers on islands below and even in some planes flying nearby saw bright streaks of light as parts of the spacecraft tumbled toward the ocean.<\/p>\n

Added a second air traffic controller: \u201cWe have reports of debris outside of the protected areas so we\u2019re currently going to have to hold you in this airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The mishap \u2014 the Starship spacecraft blew up<\/a> as it was still climbing into space \u2014 led the F.A.A. on Friday to suspend any additional liftoffs by SpaceX\u2019s Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.<\/p>\n

The incident raises new questions about both the safety of the rapidly increasing number of commercial space launches, or at least the air traffic disruption being caused by them.<\/p>\n

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The agency launched an investigation into the \u201cspace vehicle mishap\u201d on Thursday night that forced commercial flights to divert and caused debris to rain toward Caribbean islands.The urgent radio calls by the air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration office in Puerto Rico started to go out on Thursday evening as a SpaceX test flight exploded and debris began to rain toward the Caribbean.Flights near Puerto Rico needed to avoid passing through the area \u2014 or risk being hit by falling chunks of the Starship, the newest and biggest of Elon Musk\u2019s rockets.\u201cSpace vehicle mishap,\u201d an air traffic controller said over the F.A.A. radio system, as onlookers on islands below and even in some planes flying nearby saw bright streaks of light as parts of the spacecraft tumbled toward the ocean.Added a second air traffic controller: \u201cWe have reports of debris outside of the protected areas so we\u2019re currently going to have to hold you in this airspace.\u201dThe mishap \u2014 the Starship spacecraft blew up as it was still climbing into space \u2014 led the F.A.A. on Friday to suspend any additional liftoffs by SpaceX\u2019s Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.The incident raises new questions about both the safety of the rapidly increasing number of commercial space launches, or at least the air traffic disruption being caused by them.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20365,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20366,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363\/revisions\/20366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}