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It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX’s Starship probe still has some bite


The political winds have shifted in Washington, but the FAA hasn’t yet changed its tune on Starship.

Nevertheless, the Turks and Caicos government said local officials met with representatives from SpaceX and the UK Air Accident Investigations Branch on January 25 to develop a recovery plan for debris that fell on the islands, which are a British Overseas Territory. There's no evidence Whitaker's resignation had any role in the mid-air collision of an American Eagle passenger jet and a US Army helicopter Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. These missed objectives included the release of satellite mockups in space for the first demonstration of Starship's payload deployment mechanism, and a reentry over the Indian Ocean to test new, more durable heat shield materials.

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