SpaceX back to launch on Nov 1?
September 9, 2015
By Chris Forrester
SpaceX satellite launches could resume by November 1st, if reports from NASA Spaceflight are correct.
The news doesn’t come a day too soon, as SpaceX has a queue of satellites that have now been waiting since a June catastrophic failure of a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket exploded just after take-off.
The reason was put down to a failed support strut on one of the rocket’s Helium tanks.
But whatever the reason the near-5 months delay has created headaches for a number of clients and their launch plans.
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