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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 perfectly executed landing followed the Starship’s 232-foot Falcon Super Heavy booster rocket gracefully returning to the launchpad seven minutes after launch, where it was “caught” by a ...
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 goals for the test flight were for the Super Heavy booster to land on a 'virtual tower' in the ocean. [103] Super Heavy achieved a soft splashdown, [104] before being destroyed after tipping over. [105] [106] In April 2024, Musk stated one of the goals was to attempt a booster tower landing based on successful booster performance in flight 4.
Depiction of Falcon 9 landing trajectory in floating-platform recovery tests. As of 28 January 2023, SpaceX has attempted 178 landings of a first stage on a solid surface, 167 of which have succeeded (93.8%), with 139 out of 144 (96.5%) for the Falcon 9 Block 5 version.
A live stream separate from SpaceX's and hosted by space blogger Everyday Astronaut showed the Super Heavy booster exploding into a massive fireball on the Gulf horizon after splashing down.
SpaceX has already equipped newer Falcon boosters with upgraded landing legs that have the capability to self-level and mitigate this type of issue. [44] This was the second instance of a booster toppling over during transit due to weather. The first time that this occurred was in April 2019, when Falcon Heavy core booster B1055 suffered the ...
The rocket's first stage "Super Heavy" booster lifted off at 7:25 a.m. CT (1225 GMT) from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas launch facilities, sending the Starship second stage rocket toward space before ...