posted 04-21-2023 04:59 PM               

'Look what I found!' SpaceX urges finders to report debris from Starship test flight

Hours after the first test flight of SpaceX's Starship ended with the spacecraft and its Super Heavy booster tumbling until it was commanded to explode, possible debris from the colossal rocket began to wash up on the shores surrounding the company's Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

Local county officials were quick to order temporary road and beach closures to aid in "anomaly clean-up efforts," but given that the vehicle was well over the Gulf of Mexico and reached an altitude of approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers) before it broke apart on Thursday (April 20), the precautions only extended to a relatively small area of where fragments of the world's tallest and most powerful rocket could end up.

posted 05-11-2023 12:11 PM               

Starship pieces everywhere! No seashell hunting today, it’s all Starship tiles on South Padre Island! Too cool.

posted 09-22-2024 08:29 PM               

Pulled Starship Super Heavy Booster wreckage out of the sea for analysis.