Falcon 9 grounded again after deorbit burn anomaly following Crew-9 launch

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1840245345118498987

4 Comments

  1. the_fungible_man on

    Questionable title there…

    It seems they are choosing not to launch until they understand the root cause of the anomaly.

    “Grounded again” implies a regulatory bar to launch which, at this moment, has not occurred.

  2. Was this a result of the abnormal looking flickering on the merlin during the first burn? It looked like a fine leak, but nothing compared to the scale of the previous failure.