South African born Elon Musk is the CEO of SpaceX (Image: GETTY)
As reported by Boy Genius Report, Falcon Heavy was launched from the John F Kennedy Space Centre on Tuesday. It was carrying 24 satellites into orbit for the US Air Force. The mission took six hours to complete but despite the side boosters landing successfully, the middle core booster did not make the landing.
The miss resulted in a fiery explosion and Mr Musk responded to a Twitter user asking “Elon do you know what went wrong?” by explaining to her that the booster was damaged on its descent back to Earth which made it unable to control itself sufficiently enough to land safely.
The South African entrepreneur posted: “High entry force & heat breached engine bay & centre engine TVC failed.”
Falcon Heavy is set for three more launches next month.
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