Thursday night’s accident was the first involving a Falcon 9 rocket since 2016, when one exploded on the launch pad during the loading of propellants for an engine firing test.

The Falcon 9 rocket launched from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base northwest of Los Angeles at 10:35 pm EDT. Starlink launches require two firings of the second stage’s Merlin engine.

TOKYO — The engine on the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 malfunctioned during a launch July 11, causing the potential loss of a batch of Starlink satellites and creating repercussions across ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 suffers in-flight catastrophic engine failure 02:24. SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites from California Thursday, but the engine powering the rocket's ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux/File) For the first time since 2016, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket experienced a catastrophic failure after a liquid ...

This probably means the engine did not burn for as long as it was supposed to or didn't produce enough thrust. SpaceX says it will restart Falcon 9 flights as soon as it understands the root cause.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made a stunning return to Earth just 8 minutes after launching astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla into ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will be the second Indian in space, launching aboard SpaceX`s Falcon 9 rocket.

Live updates from the Starlink 10-16 mission, which launched at 3:54 p.m. June 25 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral ...

A major accident occurred in August 2014, when the engine sensors failed during a test flight, leading to a midair explosion on the Falcon 9. In June 2015, another Falcon 9 exploded midair, this ...

After a series of delays from weather to rocket engines to a leak on the International Space Station, NASA has cleared the ...

In 2016, a Falcon 9 exploded on its launchpad during an engine test. The year before, another Falcon 9 blew up as it was carrying cargo and supplies to the space station.