The Falcon 9 is grounded pending an investigation, possibly delaying upcoming crew flights.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket suffered an upper stage engine failure and deployed a batch of Starlink internet satellites into a perilously low orbit after launch from California Thursday night, the first blemish on the workhorse launcher’s record in more than 300 missions since 2016.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    It’s an impressive record, it’ll be hard to beat.

    But then, they’re going to have to beat it somehow if they ever want starship to be human rated. There’s no crew escape system on that thing… So yeah.