The FAA has grounded SpaceX's Starship pending an investigation into why the rocket's upper stage dramatically disintegrated in its latest flight.

SpaceX, the private space technology company owned by Elon Musk, is asking federal authorities to approve a new round of tests for a prototype reusable rocket, but some of them may never make it back to the surface intact and will crash in the ocean.

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 latest test of Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship, gargantuan next-generation megarocket, ended with the upper stage dramatically disintegrating over the Atlantic,forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris.

ELON Musk’s Starship rocket exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight in a dramatic mid-air failure – but the Tesla tycoon appears to remain upbeat about his space endeavours.

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.

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.”

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

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.