Starlink Group 9-3 ended a streak of more than 300 consecutive successful Falcon 9 launches when a liquid oxygen leak from a cracked sense line caused a hard restart of the upper-stage engine; all 20 Starlink satellites were left in an unusably low orbit and reentered within days.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 15.8 T
- Flight
- 297th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 12 July 2024, 02:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2024-129
- Launches in 2024
- 134th of 263
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