It was the first failed rocket landing attempt in more than three years for SpaceX. The Elon Musk-led company said that this particular booster was performing its 23rd launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new investigation comes a little more than a month after the FAA grounded SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9, one of the most world\u2019s most frequently launched rockets, after a failure occurred midflight on July 11. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The FAA ultimately cleared the rocket to return to flight just two weeks later after SpaceX quickly determined the root of the failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The grounding is sure to have a ripple effect on SpaceX\u2019s jam-packed launch schedule moving forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week, the company twice delayed the launch of an ambitious crewed spaceflight mission called Polaris Dawn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That launch will send four private astronauts into space to perform the first commercial spacewalk. SpaceX had to stand down from a launch attempt Wednesday morning due to unfavorable weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NASA also recently tapped SpaceX to rescue a pair of the agency\u2019s astronauts currently stuck on the International Space Station, due to technical issues with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that brought them to the orbiting lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon capsule, set to bring the astronauts home, is slated to launch on September 24. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s unclear if the FAA\u2019s grounding will impact that schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NASA said in a statement that although the SpaceX Starlink launch was a commercial mission, it \u201creceives insight from SpaceX on all items of interest about the Falcon 9 rocket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe agency will be included in the investigation to understand the issue and path forward,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SpaceX\u2019s primary Falcon 9 rocket was grounded by federal regulators, after one of the company\u2019s vehicles failed to land properly following a routine satellite launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":528041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[77490,11375],"class_list":["post-557843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-falcon-9-rocket","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557872,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557843\/revisions\/557872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SpaceX-Falcon-9-launch-at-night-800x533.jpg\")