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Mike Wall

FAA closes investigation into SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explosion

The world's largest rocket launches into a blue sky on SpaceX's Flight 7.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has closed its investigation into Flight 7 of SpaceX's huge Starship vehicle, which ended with a dramatic explosion over the Atlantic Ocean.

Flight 7 sent Starship aloft from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas on Jan. 16. Things went well at first; Starship's first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, came back to Starbase for a launch-tower landing about seven minutes after liftoff as planned.

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