CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding an accident investigation into this week’s out-of-control Starship flight by SpaceX.

The FAA will oversee a SpaceX-led investigation of the second-ever flight of the company's Starship vehicle, which ended eight minutes after liftoff on Nov. 18.

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"The FAA is requiring SpaceX to perform a mishap investigation into the loss of the Starship vehicle during launch operations on Jan. 16," the FAA said in a statement.

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For Starship Flight 9, the FAA has collaborated with the United Kingdom, Turks & Caicos Islands, Bahamas, Mexico and Cuba, since all had an up-close view of the last two flights’ destruction.

The FAA oversaw a mishap investigation after it grounded the rocket in the wake of the company’s first test flight April 20. During that flight, Starship successfully took off from its Texas ...

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), on Tuesday (June 4), issued a launch license to SpaceX for its Starship Flight 4 test mission currently scheduled to lift off no earlier than Thursday ...

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FAA green-lights Starship launches every other week from Starbase If SpaceX can clean up Starship's reliability issues, the company is free to fly.