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FAA grounds Falcon 9 after rare booster landing failure

For the second time in under two months, the Federal Aviation Administration has halted SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches, following a failed booster recovery that ended in a fiery destruction on the deck of ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, June 8, 2026. The first stage booster flew for a record 35th time.
The Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch military satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office on June 18. This will be only the third time in 2026 that SpaceX has attempted a land-based ...
A little more than five years ago, a shiny white Falcon 9 rocket made its debut flight, boosting a Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Over the next year, it would launch a ...
Soaring through clear skies, liftoff of the 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket — using a first stage booster that previously launched and landed in December — occurred at 11:50:31 p.m. EST ...
SpaceX is set to cross a landmark threshold in reusable rocketry on Wednesday morning as Falcon 9 booster B1088 lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base and targets its landing on the drone ship "Of ...
SpaceX is going to attempt a rare feat during its next California rocket launch. For just the third time in 2026, the commercial spaceflight company plans to return a booster back to the Vandenberg ...