After weeks of investigating the June 28 Falcon 9 failure and scrutinizing data collected from over 3,000 telemetry channels, video channels, and debris analysis, SpaceX thinks it knows what caused ...

The June 28, 2015 loss of a SpaceX Falcon 9 and its Dragon supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was most likely due to the failure of a strut in the rocket's second stage liquid ...

The failure of SpaceX’s June 28 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, was likely caused by a strut breaking in the second stage’s liquid oxygen tank, company CEO Elon Musk said in a conference call ...

On June 28, a SpaceX rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft to the space station exploded shortly after launch. The cause, Elon Musk told reporters today, was likely a faulty strut holding a Helium ...

Elon Musk has revealed that a broken strut doomed the Falcon 9 launch last month. What's odd is that the strut broke at a point far below its design tolerance. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window ...

The unexpected breakdown of a tank strut apparently caused last month’s failure of a Falcon 9 rocket launch to the International Space Station, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reported Monday. Elon Musk in ...

HAWTHORNE, Calif., July 20 (UPI) --SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is blaming the company's last rocket failure on a faulty steel strut. The collapsing steel strut, which holds up a helium bottle inside the ...