Crew-9 launch: SpaceX in fresh trouble? Falcon 9’s second stage ‘disposed’ outside targeted area
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- Sep 29, 2024
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Falcon 9 first and second stage: What happened exactly?
After the Crew 9 launch, Falcon 9 rocket first stage booster landed at the company’s Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Meanwhile, the second stage headed toward orbit.
Unlike the Falcon 9's first stage, which returned to Earth for a planned landing, the second stage is disposable. The second stage was planned to be discarded after delivering the Crew Dragon Freedom into orbit.
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft separated from the second stage 12 minutes after launch from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
"At 1:29 EDT, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft separated from the Falcon 9 rocket second stage and now is flying on its own," NASA said.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 failures in past
In August this year, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 after it failed to land back on Earth during a routine Starlink mission.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 successfully launched a batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Florida in August. The rocket's reusable first-stage booster returned to Earth and attempted to land on a sea-faring barge as usual, but it toppled into the ocean after a fiery touchdown, Reuters reported.
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