SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Explodes on Droneship, Ending String of 267 Successful Landings Written 28 August 2024
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster tips over and explodes as it lands on a drone ship. | Credit: Spaceflight Now; YouTube; Framegrab
Spaceflight Now reports, “Update 5:20 a.m. EDT: SpaceX is scrubbing the Starlink 9-5 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base to allow more time to review the data from the B1062 landing failure. For the first time in more than three years, SpaceX lost one of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters during a landing attempt amid the Starlink 8-6 mission on Wednesday morning. As it was touching down on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ a green flash could be seen around the Merlin engines before the engine section was engulfed in flames and the booster toppled over and exploded.”
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