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Falcon 9's Return To Flight scheduled for 2024-07-27T04:21Z (www.spacex.com)

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That's 27 hours from now.

SpaceX is targeting Saturday, July 27 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 12:21 a.m. ET, with backup opportunities available until 4:21 a.m. ET.

And here is their blogpost, dated 2024-07-25, announcing that the mishap report has been submitted to the FAA, and discussing some of the details.

During the first burn of Falcon 9’s second stage engine, a liquid oxygen leak developed within the insulation around the upper stage engine. The cause of the leak was identified as a crack in a sense line for a pressure sensor attached to the vehicle’s oxygen system. This line cracked due to fatigue caused by high loading from engine vibration and looseness in the clamp that normally constrains the line.

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[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

The turnaround time to identify the problem, propose and test a fix, and return to flight is just unmatched.

You could argue that it should never have happened, either because of process or design, but I guess a quality escape like this was inevitable with how many of these they make and fly.