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Even before the FAA announced that it had launched its own investigation, SpaceX had already made the decision to halt all future launches.
"We will resume launching after we better understand root cause," the Elon Musk-led company wrote in its statement."The FAA is aware an anomaly occurred during the SpaceX NASA Crew-9 mission that launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on September 28," the regulator noted in a"The incident involved the Falcon 9 second stage landing outside of the designated hazard area," the statement reads.
Then in August, the regulator grounded them once more after a Falcon 9 first-stage booster, which unlike the upper stage is reusable,It's unclear how long the FAA's latest investigation will take or whether the space company will have to take any corrective actions.
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