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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday said SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket has been grounded after failing an attempt to land back on Earth during a ...
The landing mishap ended a string of 267 successful booster recoveries dating back to February 2021. The Falcon 9's second stage, meanwhile, successfully carried 21 Starlink satellites to their ...
The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets pending an investigation to determine what caused a first-stage booster to crash onto a landing barge early Wednesday ...
The SpaceX webcast indicated that the boostback burn and reentry burns for the descending first stage occurred, and that the descending rocket then went "below the horizon," as expected, which eliminated the live telemetry signal, so that the retropropulsive landing attempt was not shown live. Shortly thereafter, SpaceX released information ...
Falcon 9 flight 20 (also known as Orbcomm OG2 M2) [1] was a Falcon 9 space launch that occurred on 22 December 2015 at 01:29:00 UTC (21 December, 8:29:00 pm local time). It was the first time that the first stage of an orbital rocket made a successful return and vertical landing.
Excerpts of the NASA-SpaceX joint webcast of the abort test (video) The abort test was a full simulation of a malfunction on a nominal trajectory to the International Space Station. [5] The abort was triggered by a command from ground control. [25] At T+1:25 minutes, the booster engines shut down and the capsule separated itself from the booster.
By RYAN GORMAN Newly-released Vine footage shows the moment a SpaceX rocket missed the barge it was intended to land on and exploded at impact. The explosive crash happened last week, but SpaceX ...
In August 2016, the demonstration flight was moved to early 2017, [10] then to summer 2017, [11] to late 2017 [12] and to January 2018. [13] At a July 2017 meeting of the International Space Station Research and Development meeting in Washington, D.C., SpaceX CEO Elon Musk downplayed expectations for the success of the maiden flight: