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Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum threatened to continue Elon Musk’s space on the fall of the debris of a Rocket launch On the other side of the border in the United States.
SpaceX said that his efforts to recover Mexico debris had been hampered by “intruders”.
Here is more about what is happening between Mexico and SpaceX.
What happened?
A SpaceX rocket “Starship”, which is part of the musk project to send humans to space, exploded in a giant fire ball during a routine launch test in Texas on June 19.
Starship rockets measure 120 meters (400 feet) high and mainly made of stainless steel.
The rocket, called Starship 36, underwent “a catastrophic and exploded failure” at the launch installation of Starbase at 4:00 GMT, according to local County County authorities.
The installation is located in Starbase, formerly called Boca Chica Village, in the county of Cameron, Texas, near the American-Mexican border.
What does Mexico say about contamination?
On Wednesday this week, Sheinbaum told his morning press conference that “there was a contamination” which had been detected in Mexico in the aftermath of the SpaceX explosion.
She said Mexican officials were examining the environmental effect caused by the Mexican state of the Tamaulipas, just over 300 km (190 miles) of Starbase.
The governor of Tamaulipas, Americo Villarreal Anaya, said that the authorities were examining “the international required distances are respected in order to have these types of facilities, so there is no risk for urban centers”, according to a New York Times report.
“We are examining everything related to the launch of rockets which are very close to our border,” said Sheinbaum.
She added that Mexico is currently trying to determine whether international laws had been raped so that it could deposit “the necessary proceedings”.
What does SpaceX say?
In a post X on Thursday, SpaceX said that his attempts to recover the debris fallen on Mexican territory had been hampered.
“Despite SpaceX’s attempts to recover the debris related to the anomaly, which is and remains the tangible property of SpaceX, these attempts have been hampered by unauthorized parties intrusion on private property,” wrote the X account. This did not specify who were these parties or where they “intrude”.
SpaceX also said that there was “no danger for the surroundings” of rocket debris. “The previous independent tests carried out on materials inside the starship, including toxicity analyzes, confirm that they do not pose any chemical, biological or toxicological risk.
“We asked for local and federal assistance from the government of Mexico in recovery,” he added.
As indicated above, there is no danger for the surroundings. The previous independent tests carried out on materials inside the spaceship, including toxicity analyzes, confirm that they do not pose any chemical, biological or toxicological risk.
And as is the case above all test, security … https://t.co/ljhgine5vj
– SpaceX (@Spacex) June 26, 2025
Where did the SpaceX rockets go exploded?
In May, the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States granted the authorization to increase the number of sports vessels that it launches from five to 25 each year.
Later this month, a Vessel prototype exploded on the Indian Ocean.
Before that, two sports vessels collapsed in pieces after being launched from Texas during test flights in January And March. In January, airlines were forced to divert flights to avoid falling debris.
Do space debris represent a danger to earth?
In January of this year, a red-chaud 500 kg metal object (1,100 lb) I fell into a village in Kenya in the county of Makueni, 115 km (70 miles) south-east of Nairobi. The Kenyan space agency said the debris was a fragment of a space object.
On Monday, March 3, the Australian Space Agency published an opinion that a Russian rocket returning to the earthly atmosphere was to fall into international waters off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, causing a “sound boom”. However, the next day, the agency said it had “watched a spatial debris return to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania”, but was “not aware of the reports or observations of debris”.
The probability of spatial debris posing a danger to people, planes or land, in general, is very low. However, recent studies show that the amount of spatial debris falling to the ground is increasing.
A study carried out by researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada, published in Scientific relationships In January 2025, noted that uncontrolled rejection of rocket bodies or space debris in the earth are increasing and may have an increased risk of collision for planes.
Another study, called The Space Environment Report, published by the European Space Agency (ESA) in March of this year, revealed that at least three “intact” and human manufacturing objects are lowered to earth every day. It is in addition to the several fragments of spatial debris that fall on the ground.
NASA has warned that there are millions of pieces of low space debris on terrestrial orbit, but there are no international space laws to clean these debris.
Currently, individuals on the ground do not run a high risk of being struck and injured by space debris reinstating the earth. The American non -profit space corporation, Aerospace, believes that this risk of being less than one by one to a million.
