AUSTIN, Texas — A Falcon 9 booster was lost after making a droneship landing March 2, the latest incident involving the rocket that has raised reliability concerns. A Falcon 9 lifted off at 9:24 ...

What we know On its 23rd mission, the Falcon 9 first stage booster tipped over amid heavy flames after touching down on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas Aug. 28, 2024.© SCREENSHOT ...

Credit: SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON — A Falcon 9 booster tipped over in a fiery landing after an Aug. 28 launch, the first unsuccessful booster landing in three and a half years by SpaceX.

Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing March 3 was a tough day for SpaceX. The company was forced to scrub flight test 8 of its monster Starship rocket and also lost a Falcon 9 ...

Full speed ahead With Falcon 9 grounded, SpaceX test-fires booster for next Starship flight SpaceX says a liquid oxygen leak caused the failure of a Falcon 9 launch last week.

He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed during an attempted landing on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean last night.

The Falcon 9 rockets were grounded for about two weeks. Return to flight At this time, it is unclear how long this investigation will take or how it will impact SpaceX's future launches.

The booster first flew in June 2020 and previously launched GPS III-3, Turksat 5A, Transporter-2, Intelsat G-33/G-34, Transporter-6, Intuitive Machines IM-1, and more than a dozen Starlink missions.

SpaceX launched more Starlink satellites via a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday morning, but lost a first-stage booster in the process when it toppled over into the Atlantic Ocean and caught fire.

This particular Falcon 9 booster — labeled B1067 — flew for the first time in June 2021. This latest flight was B1067’s fifth of 2025 and came 55 days after its most recent mission in mid-May.

At 3:58 a.m., the Falcon 9 first-stage booster appeared to tumble over amid heavy flames on its 23rd mission after settling down aboard SpaceX's drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic ...