SpaceX has put a pause on Falcon 9 launches after reporting the second stage of the rocket used in Crew-9 suffered an anomaly.
The Falcon 9′s second stage experienced an off-nominal deorbit burn and landed in the ocean outside of its target area, SpaceX said early Sunday on social media.
The California-based private space flight company said the launches would resume once it better understands the root cause of the problem, adding the disposal of the Falcon 9′s second stage was done safely and had otherwise gone as planned.
After today’s successful launch of Crew-9, Falcon 9’s second stage was disposed in the ocean as planned, but experienced an off-nominal deorbit burn. As a result, the second stage safely landed in the ocean, but outside of the targeted area.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 29, 2024
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Following SpaceX and NASA’s launch of Crew-9 astronauts Nick Hague and Alex Gorbunov to the International Space Station on Saturday, there did not appear to be any Florida launches scheduled in the near future regardless.
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A Falcon 9 launch out of California that had been scheduled for no earlier than Sunday has since been postponed to no earlier than Oct. 1, according to Vandenberg Space Force Base.
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