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Island residents are still dealing with the fallout of exploded Starship
Following the explosive failure of the Starship megarocket’s January 16 test flight, residents of the British territory were left with debris-strewn roads and beaches.
And the ordeal raises broader questions about the company’s approach to developing Starship — the gargantuan rocket system SpaceX hopes will one day carry humans to the moon and Mars — and its decision to launch the vehicle’s test flights out of South Texas, on a path that takes the spacecraft over populated areas. Zimmermann of the Turks and Caicos Reef Fund said she is aware that “a multiagency response is being planned with the key focus on cleanup.” And a recent dispatch from authorities showed that local officials met with several members of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, an arm of the United Kingdom’s Department for Transport, last week. Hours after sending out its first communication on January 17, the day after the explosion, the TCI National Security Secretariat issued another dispatch, saying “initial discussions between the UK Space Agency and SpaceX” have “confirmed that no Hydrazine was on board the Starship rocket.”
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