A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral launch site
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded in Cape Canaveral, Florida, local reports say. The explosion comes ahead of SpaceX’s plans to commercially reuse the Falcon 9, which launched to the International Space Station and landed in Cape Canaveral in mid-July, later this year. SpaceX had partnered with SES, a Luxembourgh-based communications satellite operator, to deliver an SES-10 satellite via the previously-flown Falcon 9. It was also planning to launch Israeli-based Spacecom’s Amos 6 satellite with a reused Falcon 9 this coming Saturday. It is unconfirmed whether the rocket that exploded is the one that had recently landed at Cape Canaveral. Eyewitness reports via Twitter say the explosion rocked the nearby…
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