The explosion simultaneously affected the plans of *two of the most famous names in tech — Elon Musk, who owns SpaceX, and Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The rocket and the satellite were both lost due to "an a**maly," SpaceX confirmed, though the root cause of the explosion is **t yet k**wn.*
Facebook had leased capacity on the Amos-6 communications satellite that was aboard the Falcon 9 rocket as it performed a static test fire on a Cape Canaveral launchpad.* Read more...