The FAA has grounded SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket and ordered an investigation following a failed landing attempt during a recent Starlink mission.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has grounded SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket following a failed landing attempt during a recent Starlink mission. After successfully carrying the satellites into orbit on Wednesday, the first-stage booster returned to Earth and toppled into the Atlantic Ocean in a fireball shortly after touchdown, ending a streak of 267 successful landings. The FAA has ordered an investigation into the failed touchdown.
” The grounding order could cause further delays to SpaceX’s high-profile Polaris Dawn mission, which aims to carry four people into orbit to attempt the first private spacewalk. The Polaris mission was expected to launch this week, but was pushed back due to poor weather conditions and a new date hasn’t been set yet. These investigations tend to wrap up fairly quickly at least, with SpaceX responsible for conducting the probe itself and the FAA then assessing its findings.
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