It was carrying Facebook’s first ever satellite
Dramatic footage shows the moment a SpaceX rocket exploded into a fireball during a test launch today.
The Falcon 9 was preparing to send Facebook’s first satellite into space on Saturday, but an ‘anomaly’ on the launchpad caused a massive explosion which rocked buildings from miles away.
Footage from the blast at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, next to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, was captured on a livestream.
It shows the highly flammable rocket fuel turn the spacecraft into a shaft of flames which was soon so gutted that its blackened frame was visible.
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