SpaceX's CRS-7 Dragon resupply mission for NASA broke apart 139 seconds after liftoff when a faulty steel strut let a helium bottle rupture the second-stage oxygen tank, destroying the rocket and cargo bound for the ISS.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 14th
- of 15 Falcon 9 v1.1 flights
- Date and time
- 28 June 2015, 14:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 v1.1
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Resupply
- Launches in 2015
- 33rd of 87