When SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 broke apart high over the Caribbean in January 2025, the immediate images were of a failed launch and a rain of debris. Less visible at the time was a simultaneous crisis unfolding in crowded skies: dozens of commercial aircraft forced into diversions and holding patterns,

Live updates from SpaceX’s Wednesday afternoon Starlink 6-98 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.