SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Grounded 3rd Time In 3 Months: Launch Put On Hold As Company Hunts For 'Root Cause'

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What Happened: The two-stage rocket successfully launched the Crew-9 mission into its proper orbit but while the second stage was disposed in the ocean as planned, it landed in the ocean outside of the target area after it experienced an issue, SpaceX said.“We will resume launching after we better understand root cause,” the company said in an X post on Sunday.

SpaceX has put future Falcon 9 missions on hold after the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched the Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday didn’t land back to Earth as intended.

After today's successful launch of Crew-9, Falcon 9's second stage was disposed in the ocean as planned, but experienced an off-nominal deorbit burn.

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Author / Journalist: Anan Ashraf

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