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SpaceX probe focuses on milliseconds before rocket blew up

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Last Updated : Sep 03 2016 | 9:09 PM IST
SpaceX and federal investigators are poring over a few milliseconds of data as they probe why a blaze destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and satellite on a Florida launchpad two days before a scheduled flight.

The space exploration company founded by billionaire Elon Musk said Friday that it's working to determine "causes and fixes" for the incident, which incinerated a satellite that Facebook planned to use to beam Internet access across a broad swath of Africa. Also unknown: the scale of damage to the SpaceX pad known as SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, from which it has lobbed missions into orbit.


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First Published: Sep 03 2016 | 9:07 PM IST

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