The US has grounded SpaceX's giant Starship rocket while an investigation is carried out into why one exploded during its latest test flight. The rocket's upper stage dramatically broke up and disintegrated over the Caribbean after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights to alter course to avoid falling debris.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching ... The failure came a day after Blue Origin, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space company, successfully launched its giant New Glenn rocket into orbit ...

Despite the failure, Elon Musk appeared to see the bright side, posting: "Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!"

Blue Origin scored a major win with its New Glenn rocket launch, but SpaceX still leads the space industry with a Falcon fleet and upcoming Starship.

Granted, Blue Origin poses an even bigger threat to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Boeing (NYSE: BA) and their United Launch Alliance (ULA) joint venture, which charges $110 million for Vulcan rocket launches. Airbus ' (OTC: EADSY) Arianespace charges $77 million for an Ariane 62 launch, and is probably worried, too.

Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.

SpaceX conducted another flight test of the Starship interplanetary transport system, designed to revolutionize space travel. During a test jump of 32,808 feet, the SN9 prototype successfully launched,

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Want to grab yourself a literal piece of space race history? Now you can, on eBay! Pieces of the recently exploded Starship rocket are making their way to the auction site, ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to several thousand, depending on the size of the chunk and where on the spacecraft it comes from.

SPACEX'S STARSHIP GROUNDS AFTER TEST FLIGHT EXPLOSION A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the other side of the country on Friday, when 23 Starlink satellites were delivered "to the constellation ...

But SpaceX's Starship rocket will be bigger, cheaper, and more reusable than either Falcon 9 or New Glenn. Don't worry about Elon Musk. SpaceX is going to do just fine. Once a company dabbling ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The Federal Aviation Administration has paused SpaceX's the launch of its Starship rocket as the U.S. agency oversees an investigation by the private company of the breakup after ...