Fire caused SpaceX rocket failure
Published: Mon Mar 27th, 2006Source: news.bbc.co.uk
A fire fed by a fuel leak caused the failure of a commercial rocket seconds into its maiden launch, the company that built it has confirmed. SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket was lost during lift-off from an island in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
It was carrying a US Air Force Academy research satellite onboard.
The vision of Elon Musk, co-founder of the electronic payment system PayPal, the Falcon was designed to cut the cost of current satellite launches.
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