SpaceX explosion is causing some to question Elon Musk's ambitious plans
 

SpaceX explosion is causing some to question Elon Musk's ambitious plans
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When one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets exploded on a launch pad just before a test on September 1, the spaceflight community collectively gasped.

Private spaceflight's golden child had failed again, for the second time in about 15 months.*

The September explosion destroyed the Israeli-built AMOS-6 satellite just before mission controllers started up the engines for a pad test ahead of the actual launch. Two weeks later, SpaceX is still hunting for the root cause of the accident.

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The company founded by Elon Musk is far from the first private spaceflight outfit to lose a rocket and destroy a payload, but the company's failures appear to be seen *as different from the rest of the industry, at least by the public-at-large.* Read more...

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