SpaceX has suspended Falcon 9 launches after the failure of the rocket that carried the Crew-9 mission to the ISS

North American aerospace company SpaceX has suspended Falcon 9 launches after a failure occurred in the second stage of its rocket following last Saturday’s Crew-9 launch to the International Space Station (ISS) with two astronauts on board.

“After the successful launch of Crew-9, the Falcon 9 second stage was disposed of in the ocean as planned, but When leaving orbit, it registered an anomalous combustion.

As a result, the second stage landed safely in the ocean, but outside the planned area. We will resume launches after we better understand the root cause,” the company said on social media X.

The first suspended launch was scheduled for last Sunday, as announced on its own website. It was about Launch of the OneWeb mission from Space Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SpaceX, which announced in detail on its website the launch of OneWeb last Sunday, immediately retracted the announcement without explaining that it did not take place or the reasons why it did not take place.

Eutelsat Group explained what was happening on social mediaensuring that “we are forgoing the launch of the OneWeb mission from California tonight and will share a new launch opportunity as soon as it becomes available.”

SpaceX announced a live webcast of the mission, which will be seventh flight of the first stage rocket which previously launched USSF-62 and five Starlink missions. After stage separation, the first was planned to land at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.