The rocket’s second stage failed to reignite and deployed its 20 Starlink satellites on a shallow orbital path where they will soon re-enter and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere
This image from video provided by SpaceX shows the upper stage engine of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which blasted off from California on July 11.SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket was grounded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Friday after one broke apart in space and doomed its payload of Starlink satellites, the first failure in more than seven years of a rocket relied upon by the global space industry.
The Falcon 9 will be grounded until SpaceX investigates the cause of the failure, fixes the rocket and receives the agency’s approval, the FAA said in a statement. That process could take several weeks or months, depending on the complexity of the failure and SpaceX’s plan to fix it. SpaceX said the second stage’s failure occurred after engineers detected a leak of liquid oxygen, a propellant.
The failure will likely stymie SpaceX’s intensifying launch pace for the Falcon 9. The rocket’s 96 launches last year were its most to date and exceeded the annual launch total in any country. By comparison, China, an increasingly competitive space rival to the U.S., launched 67 missions to space in 2023 using various rockets.
Falcon 9 is the only U.S. rocket capable of sending NASA crews to the International Space Station. The U.S. space agency was expecting to launch its next astronaut mission in August, with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut capsule launching atop the rocket.
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