Interstellar Applications
Interstellar Applications
Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 3
Vehicles:
B1028 (Flight 1)
Landing: Expendable
Launch Site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Payloads:
Satellite: AMOS-6
Destination: GTO
Customer: Spacecom
Mass: 5500 kg
Details:
Rocket exploded on SLC-40 during a static fire test on 1st September at 13:07. The root cause of the failure was determined to be a complex design flaw with Falcon 9's COPVs. The rocket, satellite, and SLC-40 were destroyed in the explosion. SLC-40 would not see another launch for 15 months
9th Falcon 9 Block 3 mission
1st failure
1st consecutive failure
1st launch for B1028
27th SpaceX launch from SLC-40
Turnaround: 20.07 days
9th SpaceX mission of 2016
1st mission failure of 2016
8th Falcon 9 Block 3 mission of 2016
34th SpaceX mission
5th SpaceX failure