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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