Review To Shed Light On Falcon 9 Destruct Timeline

Credit: Falcon 9: NASA
Only a few short minutes into its June 28 flight, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 began to break apart, prompting the U.S. Air Force to exercise a rare responsibility to send destruct signals to the rocket. The Falcon 9 vehicle already had begun to break up after liftoff from Cape Canaveral when the mission...

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