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SpaceX aiming to return to flight next month: Elon Musk

Musk said investigators had figured out why a Falcon 9 rocket burst into flames on September 1

Accident points to breach in rocket's helium system: SpaceX

SpaceX's Falcon rocket and a satellite were destroyed in the September 1 explosion

SpaceX crowdsources clues to rocket blast as missions stack up

SpaceX asked witnesses to share video, photos and audio of a launchpad blaze that destroyed a satellite-bearing rocket last week, a mystery that billionaire founder Elon Musk called the most "difficult and complex failure" in the company's 14 years.The ignition source for the fireball wasn't readily apparent and the spacecraft was idle at the time of the incident, Musk wrote in a tweet Friday. He also asked for any recordings of the event to be e-mailed to the Hawthorne, California-based rocket maker.The closely held company wants to quickly find the cause of the blast that engulfed its Falcon 9 rocket minutes before a scheduled pre-launch engine test on September 1. As is typical after a mishap, all rocket flights for Musk's Space Exploration Technologies have been grounded, halting operations just as the company was accelerating to its fastest-ever launch tempo to capitalise on a $10-billion backlog of scheduled missions."Turning out to be the most difficult and complex failure we ha

SpaceX probe focuses on milliseconds before rocket blew up

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.

SpaceX to shift Florida launches to new pad after Falcon 9 explosion

Any sign of rocket malfunction could require changes throughout the Elon Musk's SpaceX fleet

Explosion at SpaceX launch pad destroys rocket, satellite

SpaceX was preparing for the test firing of its unmanned Falcon rocket when the blast occurred

SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket after launch

As part of its ongoing effort to re-use costly rocket parts instead of jettisoning them into the ocean

SpaceX to launch space station docking port

Its first users were expected to be the Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft

SpaceX to launch first cargo since 2015 accident

Dragon capsule, carrying gear for 6 astronauts living at the research outpost, will blast off from Florida

SpaceX launches satellite toward distant orbit

The satellite must reach a geostationary orbit more than 38,000 kilometers above the Earth