It's been almost a week since the Space Coast has heard the rumble of the Falcon 9 rocket. One is now set to launch Sunday night.

A scorched and disfigured SpaceX Falcon 9 arrived at Port Canaveral on Wednesday, marking a rare sight among the routine space hardware that regularly comes through the Florida port. The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted rocket body hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers.

SpaceX put on a brave face about the situation, although the booster, at five flights, was a relative spring chicken compared to others in the company's fleet. The rocket biz said: "While disappointing to lose a rocket after a successful mission, the team will use the data to make Falcon even more reliable on ascent and landing."

March 3, 2025, was an unfortunate date for SpaceX. The journey started quite gloriously but ended in a massive failure, as the company lost its booster in the p

Saturday's mishap was the third to trigger an FAA grounding in the past three months. Before that, groundings were rare for Falcon 9, SpaceX's centerpiece rocket, which much of the Western world ...

SpaceX said it lost contact with its massive Starship rocket during its highly anticipated test launch on Thursday evening.

SpaceX is set to have another go at launching its monster Starship rocket today after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the venture the green light.