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Ars Technica1y
A historic Falcon 9 made a little more history Friday night
one of SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 boosters stands apart from the rest of the company's rocket inventory. This booster, designated with the serial number B1058, has now flown 18 times. For its ...
Space.com1y
History-making SpaceX Falcon 9 booster mostly destroyed in post-flight topple
Referred to by SpaceX by its serial number, B1058, the Falcon 9 first stage was being transported back to shore after its record-setting 19th flight when "the booster tipped over "due to high ...
Florida Today1y
Social media lights up as mangled, 3-legged SpaceX booster reaches Port Canaveral docks
#PortCanaveral was trending Wednesday after the mangled cylindrical base of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster floated ... Identified as B1058, this bashed-up booster tipped over atop its drone ...
Ars Technica1y
SpaceX is stretching the lifetime of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters
“The Falcon 9 first stage has now successfully launched ... The booster flown Sunday night, numbered B1058 in SpaceX’s inventory, debuted with the company’s first launch of astronauts ...
Digital Trends1y
Watch SpaceX highlights of Falcon 9’s 300th successful mission
That’s one flight short of that achieved by four other first-stage Falcon 9 boosters and two short of the record 19 flights performed by B1058 before it was lost at sea. The large number of ...
SpaceX teams reviewing data after rocket booster tips over, meets fiery demise atop drone ship
Last December, SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster B1058 tipped over atop the drone ship Just Read the Instructions early amid ...
CNN9mon
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket cleared to fly again with two high-profile missions ahead
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites to orbit on record-breaking 27th flight (video, photos)
The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 27 Starlink satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO), deploying them there on schedule about 65 minutes after launch. Monday's liftoff ...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage engine suffers catastrophic in-flight failure during Starlink launch
The malfunction likely will impact plans to launch entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and three crewmates at the end of the month atop a Falcon 9 on a commercial flight that is to include the first ...