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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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.