The FAA grounded the SpaceX Falcon 9 after an in space failure of the Falcon 9 upper stage. There was a liquid oxygen leak.
SpaceX had a good first burn and deployed the satellites but did not get them to the right orbital altitude. The satellites will be de-orbited.
The Falcon 9 had the longest series of successful launches.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 is used for manned missions so they have to re-certify everything. It depends if the root cause is simple whether they can get a fast certification.
SpaceX will investigate the issue and look for any other potential near-misses.
SpaceX is tracking to do more Falcon flights this year than Shuttle did in 30 years, the vast majority of which are uncrewed.
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