FAA Probes Starship Test Failure
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Starship FlightSpace
•FAA requiring investigation into SpaceX Starship's Flight 7 explosion
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is requiring an investigation into what went wrong during a test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket yesterday .
The launch, from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas , went well at first .
The flight plan called for the upper stage to deploy 10 dummy satellites about 17.5 minutes after liftoff and splash down in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia .
But that didn't happen; the 171-foot-tall ( 52 meters ) craft exploded over the Atlantic Ocean near the Turks and Caicos .
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