SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket News: Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX suffered a major setback last week. Due to a technical fault in one of its most successful rockets, Falcon-9, 20 Starlink satellites could not reach space and were destroyed. This is the first failure of the Falcon-9 rocket in the last several years. Scientists are investigating the reasons for the malfunction in the rocket. Now the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned the flight of the Falcon 9 rocket.
According to media reports, the Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday night last week. It was carrying 20 Starlink satellites with it. About an hour after takeoff, the second stage of the rocket failed to restart and all the Starlink satellites went into an orbit of the Earth from where they could not be brought back to the destination. All the satellites will now enter the Earth’s atmosphere and burn.
Falcon-9 will be able to fly only after investigation
According to the report, SpaceX now has to investigate why the Falcon-9 rocket failed. After repairing the rocket, it will have to get the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Till then the rocket will not be flown, that is, it will remain on the ground. It is being told that it may take a few weeks or months to fix this situation.
The Falcon-9 rocket is one of the most successful rockets of SpaceX. It has successfully flown more than 300 missions so far. Many countries and companies of the world have flown their missions with the help of Falcon-9 rocket. Elon Musk has said that SpaceX is updating the software of Starlink satellites to force their on-board thrusters to fire with more force than usual. It is worth noting that the Starlink satellites could not be lifted up from where the Falcon-9 rocket had dropped them.
