{"id":448238,"date":"2026-05-27T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448238\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:35:08","slug":"faa-orders-spacex-to-investigate-mishap-with-its-starship-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448238\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA orders SpaceX to investigate mishap with its Starship booster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered SpaceX to investigate \u200bwhy its Starship booster suffered a mishap and crashed into the Gulf \u200cof Mexico during a test flight last week, the agency said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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The FAA said it determined the SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch on May 22 resulted in a mishap that \u200binvolved its Super Heavy booster as it flew back to the Gulf \u200bof Mexico after stage separation.<\/p>\n

SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The FAA added \u200bthat there were no reports of injuries to \u200bmembers of the public or damage to public property.\u202f The \u200cFAA \u2060said it will oversee the SpaceX-led investigation, be involved in every step of the process, and approve the company\u2019s final report, including any corrective actions.\u202f\u200b<\/p>\n

The probe is \u200bdesigned to \u2060boost public safety, determine the cause of the mishap, and identify actions to \u200bprevent it from happening again.<\/p>\n

The \u200bFAA \u2060said it will approve a return to flight of the Starship-Super Heavy vehicle after ensuring any system, process, \u2060or \u200bprocedure related to the mishap \u200bdoes not affect public safety.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered SpaceX to investigate \u200bwhy its Starship booster suffered a mishap and crashed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-448238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}