Falcon 9 launches resumed 15 days after the failure. A second anomaly involving the Falcon 9 upper stage took place during the launch of the Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station in ...

The Falcon 9 rocket is designed to transport people and cargo into space and then safely reenter Earth’s atmosphere. However, at 4:46 a.m. local time Wednesday, the second stage of the rocket ...

Credit: Brandon Lindner HOUSTON — Intuitive Machines’ second lunar ... In addition to IM-2, the Falcon 9 carried three secondary payloads deployed from the upper stage about four minutes ...

The first stage booster also features four landing legs and four grid fins for recovery. The Falcon 9 second stage features a single, vacuum-optimized Merlin engine that produces 934 kN of thrust.

SpaceX has also experienced recent and recurring problems with the Falcon 9 rocket's expendable upper stage. On February 1, a second stage deorbit burn failed after a Starlink launch. This led to ...

“There is that deployment. You can see IM-2 Nova-C lunar lander named Athena floating away from Falcon 9 second stage.” Advertisement 1:06 0:43 14:22 Advertisement 2:05 0:36 ...

"No one was affected as a result of this incident." "The Falcon 9 second stage from the Starlink 11-4 launch failed to deorbit itself on Feb 2. It reentered over Northern Europe last night ...

This incident marks the second time ... making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only tell-tale sign that the object had been a Falcon 9 rocket were the ...

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40. The Falcon 9's first-stage booster ... Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander.

The Falcon 9 upper stage failed to deorbit as planned following its Feb. 1 launch. A SpaceX rocket stage fell to Earth early Wednesday (Feb. 19), blazing a trail of fire through European skies.