Trouble on the mission without astronauts on board will likely delay upcoming human spaceflight launches while the company investigates what went wrong.
For the first time since 2016, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket experienced a catastrophic failure after a liquid oxygen leak developed on the spacecraft’s second stage – an incident that could delay future launches at least temporarily.
Musk said the Starlink satellites aboard the Falcon 9 were deployed but in an orbit that was too low. The that the satellites are expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and be destroyed. SpaceX said it worked unsuccessfully overnight to try to get the Starlink satellites positioned into their correct obit, but they are too low to survive.“The satellites were left in an enormously high-drag environment only 135 km above the Earth,” the company said. “As such, the satellites will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere and fully demise.
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