The releases of SpaceX have been arrested for now, after a booster rocket caught fire during landing on Wednesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suspended the launch of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets and ordered an investigation after the pre-dawn accident off the coast of Florida. No injuries or material damage were reported..
The impact this will have on upcoming manned flights scheduled by SpaceX is still unknown.one private and one for the POTA billionaire’s charter flight was delayed a few hours earlier due to poor weather forecasts.
The rocket took off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and launched the 21 satellites into orbit Starlink internetBut the booster rocket disintegrated in a fireball moments after landing on an ocean platform, the first such accident in years. It was the 23rd time the rocket had been launched, a recycling record for SpaceX.
The FAA said it must approve the results of the investigation into the SpaceX accident and the corrective measures that will be taken before the company can resume Falcon 9 launches.Following the accident, a launch from California with additional Starlink satellites was immediately suspended.
SpaceX Vice President Jon Edwards said the company is working “as quickly as possible” to understand what went wrong.
“Losing a rocket is always sad. Each one has a unique history and character. Fortunately, this does not happen often.”Edwards published in X.
In addition to the private space flight that hopes to take off from Kennedy Space Center SpaceX plans to launch a pair of astronauts for NASA late next month from Florida. Two seats will be reserved for the two astronauts who blasted off in June aboard Boeing’s new Starliner capsule, which NASA has deemed unsafe for return.