A SpaceX rocket exploded minutes after launching from Florida on an uncrewed mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station on Sunday. Now, mission controllers are starting the potentially tedious process of finding out what went wrong.
Carrying a Dragon capsule, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated above Florida a little more than two minutes after launching on its ISS mission at 10:21 a.m. ET Sunday. The failure's root cause wasn't immediately clear, but SpaceX thinks a problem occurred in the second stage of the Falcon 9
Each stage (or segment) of a Falcon 9 has its own engine and fuel, used to boost a payload higher and higher, to its predetermined orbit. The rocket's first stage, which has nine engines on a Falcon 9, falls away after it burns its fuel, at which point the second stage is expected to kick on and boost the payload even higher Read more...
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