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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 ...
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 ...
The Polaris mission had been expected to launch this week but was delayed by a launchpad hitch, and then again over bad weather. After the July grounding, SpaceX returned Falcon 9 to flight 15 ...
Falcon 9 flight 26 was the 26th Falcon 9 space launch by SpaceX, which launched both ABS's ABS-2A and Eutelsat's Eutelsat 117 West B (formerly Satmex 9) to geostationary transfer orbit, that occurred on 15 June 2016 at 14:29 UTC (10:29am local time). [1]
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.
Musk later clarified that the bipropellant valve was stuck, and therefore the control system could not react rapidly enough for a successful landing. [57] On April 15, SpaceX released a video of the terminal phase of the descent, the landing, the tip over, and the resulting deflagration as the stage broke up on the deck of the ASDS. [58]
It was first stage B1062's 23rd and what turned out to be its final launch and landing, a new reuse record. SpaceX is working toward certifying its Falcon 9 first stages for up to 40 flights each ...
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.