The American company SpaceX lost the first stage of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket with serial number B1058. The device made a record 19 launches and returns to Earth, but was almost completely destroyed when it fell during transport. Information about the incident was made official bill SpaceX is on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The incident took place on December 25. Two days ago, stage B1058 landed safely on SpaceX’s “Just Read the Instructions” autonomous floating platform off the coast of Florida after launching 23 Starlink satellites. However, while the robot ship was heading towards the coast, it encountered a small storm, and as a result, the Falcon 9 crashed into the field and received serious damage.
John Edwards, SpaceX’s VP of the Falcon program, published a post about X promising to repair the Merlin rocket engines that survived the crash. According to him, the company will not let the device go to waste.
SpaceX noted that B1058 launched two astronauts and more than 860 satellites with a total weight of approximately 260 tons into orbit in 3.5 years.
steel before known Reasons for another failure during testing of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft.