SpaceX’s Raptor 3 was meant to fix Starship’s reliability problem, but several engines quit less than 20 seconds into boostback

Starship’s new Raptor 3 engines faltered during boostback. See why the FAA has grounded SpaceX following Flight 12's hard splashdown.
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The FAA is still grounding Starship while SpaceX hunts down what killed Booster 19 during Flight 12’s hard landing in the Gulf

Booster 19 was supposed to slow itself to a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, it came in hard, and the Federal Aviation Administration has kept Starship grounded ever since. The ...
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SpaceX Starship Grounded After Flight 12 Booster Failure: FAA Investigation Threatens IPO Timeline

SpaceX's newest and most powerful rocket is grounded — five days after its debut — after the Federal Aviation Administration formally declared the May 22 Starship Flight 12 launch a mishap and ordered ...
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Starship flight 12 booster 19 'big explosion' - this supercut proves it! Flight 12 analysis!

SpaceX today completed the twelfth flight test of its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicle from a newly designed pad at Starbase, lifting off at 5:30 p.m. CT to evaluate significant ...
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From explosions to milestones, SpaceX’s Starship journey to flight 12

Previous tests have seen both successes, like deploying satellites, and failures, including multiple explosions. Elon Musk's company aims to use the vehicle for future human missions to the moon and ...