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SpaceX lost its flight leader booster, tail number B1062, during its landing attempt on the droneship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas.\u2019 This was the booster\u2019s 23rd flight. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Update 5:20 a.m. EDT: SpaceX is scrubbing the Starlink 9-5 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base to allow more time to review the data from the B1062 landing failure.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For the first time in more than three years, SpaceX lost one of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters during a landing attempt amid the Starlink 8-6 mission on Wednesday morning. As it was touching down on the droneship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas,\u2019 a green flash could be seen around the Merlin engines before the engine section was engulfed in flames and the booster toppled over and exploded.<\/p>\n

While recovering the booster is a secondary part of the mission compared to the deployment of the 21 Starlink satellites, SpaceX\u2019s business model is based on the reusability of its rockets\u2019 first stage boosters. Whatever issue ultimately led to the demise of the booster, tail number B1062, snapped a streak of 267 successful booster landings.<\/p>\n