Review To Shed Light On Falcon 9 Destruct Time Line
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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 undertake a rare responsibility to send destruct signals to the rocket. The Falcon 9 vehicle had already begun to break up when the mission flight control officers from Cape...
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