FAA just declared this after Starship’s 2nd launch LOST & EXPLODED...

FAA just declared this after Starship’s 2nd launch LOST & EXPLODED... ========= Images and Videos Sources: SpaceX: @SpaceX Elon Musk: NASA: @NASA Cosmic Perspective: @CosmicPerspective Randolph Visuals: WAI: @Whataboutit Everyday Astronaut: LabPadre Space: Deven Perez: Austin Barnard: JennyHPhoto: Groundtruth: @groundtruth4442 John Kraus: Toby Li: Philip Bottin: Randolph Visuals: SpaceXvision: StarshipGazer: TrevorMahlmann: Ezekiel Overstreet: ============= FAA just declared this after Starship’s 2nd launch LOST & EXPLODED... Once again, SpaceX just made another historic milestone with their second Starship flight test, but it still ended in an explosion minutes after launch. Before obtaining launch permission, a 7-month bureaucratic battle over the environmental impact of the rocket considered factors such as endangered birds, historical monuments, exhaust, and construction noise. Now, due to this explosion, the FAA has continued to ground the Starship Super Heavy launch system while the results of the mishap investigation are being evaluated. FAA just declared this after Starship’s 2nd launch LOST & EXPLODED... So, what will the FAA report? And when can SpaceX launch the next Starship? Let’s learn more about this development in today’s episode of Alpha. SpaceX launched its second Starship rocket flight on Saturday, with Elon Musk’s company pushing the development of the mammoth vehicle past new milestones. FAA just declared this after Starship’s 2nd launch LOST & EXPLODED... Liftoff came a few minutes after 8 a.m. ET from its Starbase facility near Boca Chica, Texas. Starship flew for more than seven minutes, successfully separating from its booster before the rocket’s onboard system intentionally destroyed the vehicle mid-flight. FAA just declared this after Starship’s 2nd launch LOST & EXPLODED... No people were on board the test flight. “We have lost the data from the second stage ... what we do believe right now is that the Automated Flight Termination System on the second stage appears to have triggered very late in the burn,” John Insprucker, SpaceX principal integration engineer, said on the company’s webcast. The flight termination system is a standard safety feature in rockets, as it destroys the vehicle if a problem arises or it flies off course. On SpaceX’s webcast, Starship appears to have been detonated at an altitude of about 148 kilometers (or about 485,000 feet). That is a little under half the altitude at which the International Space Station orbits the Earth. FAA just declared this after Starship’s 2nd launch LOST & EXPLODED...