40+ Spacex Rocket Launch Pad Images. It is not clear yet exactly what caused the explosion, but elon musk announced that it occurred while the rocket was being filled with. The incident occurred at about 9:07 a.m.
From pad 39a, the historic site from which the crew of apollo 11 left for the moon, after a seamless countdown where the primary concern was inclement weather that on wednesday had forced a postponement of the first launch attempt. The spacex rocket explosion destroyed a satellite facebook had leased space on to bring internet access to parts of africa. Spacex will launch the next mission of nasa's commercial resupply services contract from launch complex 40 aboard a falcon 9 rocket.
We got to see first hand how huge the spacex.
Spacex was testing a falcon 9 rocket at a cape canaveral launch pad when it was rocked by powerful explosions. This was the first launch for the company from florida since. This is the same launch pad used by the saturn v rocket that first took people to the moon in 1969, wrote. A spacex rocket blew up on a launchpad in florida, marking the spacex is restoring a second pad for human space flight on the florida cape and building another launch facility in texas.