SpaceX Test Flight Breakup Illuminates Environmental Risks from Rocket Debris in the Caribbean Sky
Austin, Texas – As the debris from SpaceX’s latest test flight lit up the Caribbean sky, concerns mount over the environmental and safety impacts of such dazzling yet potentially hazardous displays. Last Thursday, spectators witnessed fragments of the Starship’s upper stage—Ship 33—scatter across the sky, a reminder of the risks these ventures pose not just in space, but here on Earth. Moriba Jah, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas Austin, equates …