SpaceX and the science of failure

On its third try, Starship rocket flies through space but fails during re ...

The SpaceX Starship spacecraft lifts off from Starbase in Boca ... Despite test flight failure, Starship poised to transform space science ...

What We Know About Why SpaceX's Starship Rocket Failed - Time

This much is clear: of the 33 engines that power the rocket's first stage, flight video reveals that at least eight failed to fire. In a Feb. 9 ...

FAA demands investigation into in-flight failure of SpaceX rocket

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring an investigation into the in-flight failure of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as it was ...

SpaceX rocket fails after routine launch from Vandenberg - ABC7

SpaceX's stalwart Falcon 9 rocket, which powers satellite launches as well as trips to orbit for NASA astronauts, experienced a rare failure Thursday night.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fails during routine mission - CNN

The last time a Falcon 9 rocket failed during flight was in June 2015, when the launch vehicle was powering a cargo mission to the International ...

Updates - SpaceX

... science as fact. We recently received a launch license date ... failing in a way that resulted in loss of the vehicle. SpaceX has ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket grounded after rare inflight failure - CNBC

... SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites suffered a rare midflight failure Thursday evening. The rocket's upper second stage failed ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage engine suffers catastrophic in-flight ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage engine suffers catastrophic in-flight failure during Starlink launch ... Musk referred to the anomaly as a "RUD," a ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket grounded for 2nd time in 2 months following ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday (Aug 28), following a failed landing attempt that ...

So what was that? Was Starship's launch a failure or a success?

For a general audience who sees NASA at work, an agency that can't afford to fail, this looks like failure. NASA failures often involve the loss ...

SpaceX's Starship 'Learning Experience' Ends in Explosion

Video of the rocket captured flashes as several of the 33 engines failed on the lower portion of the spacecraft, the Super Heavy booster. That ...

Was the SpaceX launch really a 'success'? - CNN

Within the space industry, Thursday's Starship test mission wasn't considered an outright failure, Caleb Henry, director of research at the ...

SpaceX Rocket Failure Threatens Support for Commercial Spaceflight

“Public perceptions were hit less hard by the Orbital Sciences and Russian failures but because of the visibility that SpaceX claims, this hits ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket grounded after Starlink satellites ... - YouTube

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket grounded after Starlink satellites lost in launch failure. 59K views · 4 months ago ...more. Spaceflight Now. 293K.

SpaceX rocket failure leaves Starlink satellites in wrong orbit

A SpaceX rocket has experienced its first failure in nearly a decade, leaving the company's internet satellites in an orbit so low that they are destined to ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets grounded pending FAA investigation into ...

The engine failure blamed for stranding 20 Starlink satellites in a low, non-survivable orbit was caused by a liquid oxygen leak.

IG-16-025 - NASA's Response to SpaceX's June 2015 Launch Failure

A launch incident is an unplanned event that is not a launch accident but is still a malfunction or failure of a critical system. Page 16. NASA ...

Because failure is an option SpaceX can do stuff like land rockets on ...

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough." That attitude was on full display early Friday morning ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX Failure Fallout for Satellite Firms - Bloomberg

The Fallout from SpaceX's Falcon Failure. Image from video provided by SpaceX shows the upper stage engine of a Falcon 9. Image from ...

Lessons from SpaceX for those of us who are afraid of failure

... failure. I mean, the rocket blew up. How much more could it have failed? The scientists at SpaceX, however, didn't see it that way. Instead ...