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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets are grounded after an in-flight failure


This was the first Falcon 9 failure since 2016.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket experienced an engine failure after it launched late Thursday night from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. As a result of the failure, SpaceX said the Starlink satellites were deployed to “a lower than intended orbit.”

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