Starship launch unscheduled disassembly. Image: Eco News By Dara Kerr, Published by The Guardian, 17 July 2025 Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim The north-west Hawaiian island of Mokumanamana is said to be touched
Starship flies off the launch pad during IFT-3. (Source: Elon Musk /Twitter (X)) By Matthew Lewallen, Published by Space News, 14 April 2025 On a clear evening this January, flights out of Miami, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale suddenly ground to a halt. The culprit wasn’t weather or a software glitch
Image: EcoNews By Sanusha S., Published by EcoNews, 22 January 2025 SpaceX’s Starship flew for the seventh time on January 16, 2024, nearly taking off but impacting a cloud of explosive debris. Meanwhile, on completion of space exploration debris is raining down from the sky in the Caribbean and some
AI Image By Seth Kurkowski, Published by Space Explored, 18 January 2025 Utah might open a study to see if the state should open its own spaceport, a rather interesting idea given the state has no open oceans on either side of itself but does host a large number of aerospace professionals.
Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2024 By Lynda Williams, Published by Honolulu Civil Beat, 10 January 2025 Federal authorities have not required a thorough review, or consultation with Hawaiian stakeholders, for Starshipʻs proposed landing zones. Since 2022, Elon Musk and SpaceX has requested larger and larger landing areas near Hawai‘i for their experimental
By Lynda Williams, Published by Counter Punch, 12 December 2024 On April 20, 2023, SpaceX’s Starship—the largest and most powerful rocket ever built—exploded just four minutes after liftoff from its Boca Chica spaceport in Texas. While CEO Elon Musk touted the mission as a success for clearing the launch pad,
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Crew-9 mission on September 28. NASA By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 12 October 2024 'The FAA notified SpaceX on Oct. 11 that the Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to regular flight operations.' The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched the Crew-9 mission on September 28. NASA By Passant Rabie, Published by Gizmodo, 2 October 2024 It looks like the Falcon 9 rocket won’t be flying again anytime soon. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has requested an investigation into SpaceX’s launch of its Crew-9 mission
