SpaceX launch site explosion in Florida being picked up on weather radar. #3Weather pic.twitter.com/4bbUM4WwLZ
— Frank Macek (@frankmacekwkyc) September 1, 2016
Statement on this morning’s anomaly pic.twitter.com/3Xm2bRMS7T
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 1, 2016
Explosion at SpaceX Pad 40 at 9:07am ET resulted in loss of the rocket & the payload. Pad was clear & no injuries. pic.twitter.com/4KQD1MvOmz
— talia landman (@taliaeliana) September 1, 2016
An explosion was reported at the launch site of the SpaceX rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida https://t.co/uBHedP21gq pic.twitter.com/pKZW0ImuNO
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 1, 2016
Dramatic SpaceX news out of Florida this morning:
There has been an explosion on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the aerospace company SpaceX was readying an unmanned rocket for launch.
The cause of the blast is not clear and it is not known if anyone was hurt.
Nasa said SpaceX was test-firing a rocket which was due to take a satellite into space this weekend…..
Local emergency officials described the incident as a “catastrophic abort during a static test fire”.
The payload was the Amos 6 communications satellite. The launch had been scheduled for Saturday.