Thursday wasn’t a very fruitful day for the private aerospace company – SpaceX. It’s rocket – Falcon 9 – worth $200 million which was to deposit a communications satellite to geostationary orbit exploded on the spaceport in Florida’s Cape Canaveral in a dramatic turn of event.
In a grave setback to Elon Musk, the 229-foot-long rocket rose into a giant inferno during its pre-launch static test fire phase. The satellite it was to put in orbit was to expand Facebook’s Internet.org across the African continent.
It is speculated that the explosion would delay NASA’s cargo supplies to International Space Station (ISS).
Even though the incident is the result of a prima facie ‘malfunction’, agencies associated with the launch programs would investigate into ‘sloppy’ operations of SpaceX.
