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