SpaceX’s highly reliable Falcon 9 rocket has experienced a rare failure that means the latest batch of the company’s Starlink satellites won’t make it into orbit, the company said Friday, as regulators opened an investigation.
Though it deployed the 20 Starlink internet satellites it was carrying, they entered an eccentric orbit with a low point of 135 km , roughly half of what it needed to be. The mishap marks a rare failure for a rocket that has launched successfully 364 times, carrying astronauts, payloads for SpaceX’s commercial clients and thousands of Starlink satellites to orbit.
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