Starship Debris Came Closer to Airplanes Than SpaceX Admits

SpaceX’s test flight of Starship forced the rerouting of several passenger flights earlier this year, with visible sightings of falling rocket debris, according to documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

Starship lifted off on January 16 from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas. The rocket’s seventh test flight did not go according to plan; Starship’s upper stage suffered an engine glitch that forced an early shutdown, causing it to break apart and rain down bits of…