Elon Musk’s SpaceX has come under scrutiny for its expanding operations in Boca Chica, Texas, as the company’s initial promises of maintaining a “small, eco-friendly” footprint clash with the reality on the ground.
A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company's internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up.
SpaceX suffered a rare failure of its Falcon 9 rocket in space on Thursday, marking the first major in-flight mishap in hundreds of launches of the workhorse vehicle.
SpaceX’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday night was set to send 20 Starlink high-speed internet satellites into low-Earth orbit. The rocket suffered an anomaly. After the Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in…
A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company's internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up.
One of the company's rockets has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving its internet satellites in an orbit so low, they’re doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up.
SpaceX's highly reliable Falcon 9 rocket has experienced a rare failure that means the latest batch of the company's Starlink satellites won't make it into orbit, the company said Friday, as regulators opened an investigation.
After an anomaly led to an engine RUD during its latest Falcon 9 launch, SpaceX has shared that it managed to successfully 'safe' the second stage. The Falcon 9 second stage's Merlin 1D engine experienced a RUD (Rapid Unscheduled…
After going eight years and more than 300 launches without a failure, SpaceX had a Falcon 9 rocket launch go awry, resulting in the expected loss of 20 Starlink satellites. The Federal Aviation Administration said it would oversee an…
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket suffered a catastrophic engine failure as it launched a batch of Starlink satellites into orbit Thursday night, the first time in nearly a decade the rocket has failed. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has…
WASHINGTON >> SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket was grounded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today after one broke apart in space and doomed its payload of Starlink satellites, the first failure in more than seven years…
Two hours after SpaceX launched its latest Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday evening, a message popped up from CEO Elon Musk on X : "Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown." Translation, per…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket experienced an engine failure after it launched late Thursday night from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission, Starlink Group 9-3, was carrying Starlink satellites and failed to reignite its…