Debris from SpaceX launch seen falling in Turks and Caicos

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Debris from SpaceX launch seen falling in Turks and Caicos

Orange and white streaks lit up the sky in Turks and Caicos after the SpaceX Starship failed and broke up in the atmosphere. The "rapid unscheduled disassembly" — as SpaceX calls it — "happened over Bahamas, with debris passing over Turks and Caicos a couple minutes later at ~120 km altitude (~75 miles)," according to a trajectory analysis from Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist and astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Date: January 17, 2025