It is the first failure in more than seven years of a rocket relied upon by the global space industry.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 is pictured launching satellites into orbit after lifting off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California, on July 12.
The attempt to reignite the engine “resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown,” SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk wrote early on July 12 on his social media platform X, using an industry acronym for Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly that usually means an explosion. The botched mission of the world’s most active rocket breaks a success streak of more than 300 straight missions during which SpaceX has maintained its dominance of the launch industry. Many countries and space companies rely on privately owned SpaceX, valued at roughly US$200 billion , to send their satellites and astronauts into space.
The mishap occurred on Falcon 9‘s 354th mission. It was the first Falcon 9 failure since 2016, when a rocket exploded on a launch pad in Florida and destroyed its customer payload, an Israeli communications satellite. Although the July 11 Falcon 9 flight was an in-house mission, the rocket’s grounding is likely to impact the company’s upcoming customer missions.
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