The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday cleared SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket to resume launch operations as it continues a probe into a failure of the rocket's second stage this month.

The launch, originally scheduled for Sunday, finally took to the skies on Thursday, delivering a payload of Starlink satellites into orbit.

As for SpaceX and the Falcon 9, the company blamed the July 11 failure on a crack in an upper stage sensor line, caused by a loose bracket and metal fatigue, that led to a liquid oxygen leak.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday, August 31, 2024. The rocket is carrying 21 Starlink satellites, 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities.

Joining Whitson are first-time fliers Shubhanshu Shukla from India, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland, and Tibor Kapu from Hungary. The mission brings a return to human spaceflight for these ...

The long delayed Axiom Space crew is set to lift off during the early hours of Wednesday, with a Starlink launch later in the day.

Following stage separation, the Falcon 9 booster descended and landed on the SpaceX drone ship Just Read the Instructions in ...

SpaceX now plans to launch each Falcon 9 booster up to 40 times. Engineers temporarily removed two Falcon 9 boosters from SpaceX's launch rotation in 2023 for in-depth inspections after their 15th ...

SpaceX’s 1-million-square-foot campus in Hawthorne, though, is home to more than just offices — it’s also the company’s primary production and processing facility for its Falcon 9 ...