There ’s been an detonation on SpaceX ’s Cape Canaveral launch complex . Apparently , a Falcon 9 rocket is in flames , and several images of a dope plume rising above the complex suggest that something is very amiss .

NASA says SpaceX was conduct a test lighting of its remote-controlled rocket when the blast occurred Thursday morn . The test , considered routine , was in approach of a planned Saturday launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station .

Buildings several miles off stimulate from the gust , and multiple explosions extend for several second . A cloud of dark smoke filled the clouded sky .

SpaceX report that there were no injury , but both the vehicle and its payload were lost . Its payload , by the way , was plain an Israeli - made communications satellite that Facebook was going to use to boom free internet down to sub - Saharan Africa .

Nevertheless , images from the picture of the explosions look very bad :

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Here ’s an effigy of the impregnable back , via Skywitness News , showing significant damage to the stiff back .

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The sens plume even grew large enough that it was able to be seen on radiolocation :

pregnant smoke plume come from the Cape Canaveral Space X launch pad in Florida , seen on radar.#Spacexpic.twitter.com/43FiZKMIXB

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And onlookers were present to take the aftermath :

SpaceXwas due to set in motion an Amos 6communications artificial satellite for Spacecom of Israel on a Falcon 9 on Saturday . The reuse Falcon 9 rocket that was recently scheduled to take off , however , was reportedly not postulate in the accident :

mark that the Falcon 9 that just exploded was NOT the reused one – that was scheduled for next month , but of class will be retard now

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Again , the arugula and its payload were ruin in the explosion . We ’re strain out to SpaceX for more information and will proceed to update this post as we hear back .

Update 10:25 a.m. It looks like , adverse to earlier write up , the Amos 6 communications satellite had indeed been dilute and was destroyed in the explosion . SpaceX confirms , however , that there were no injury or casualties from the incident .

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Facebook reportedly had a deal with Spacecom to make function of their Amos 6 as part of their movement to increase general net connectivity . Computerworld report :

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SpaceX , one of the companionship that launches cargo ships to the International Space Station , is set to launch the artificial satellite for Facebook at 3 a.m. ET Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida .

Facebook is using infinite on the Amos 6 communication satellite , owned by Israeli - based Spacecom . The artificial satellite is launching on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket .

We ’re reaching out to Facebook to obtain out how this will bear upon its loose cyberspace architectural plan in Africa .

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Update 11:11 a.m. NASA ’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is on the scene and is now monitoring air quality play along the blowup .

“ NASA has no verbatim information related to the incident that occurred curtly after 9 a.m. EDT Thursday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 , ” Mike Curie , Kennedy Space Center ’s News Chief , say in a statement to Gizmodo . “ Kennedy Space Center Emergency Operations Center personnel department are monitoring the office and suffer by to assist if required . Kennedy Environmental Health is monitor the air quality to see it is safe for employees . ”

Update 11:50 a.m. Roadblockshave been set up to keep thearea around the launchpad , which still appear to be place up heavy heater clouds , unclouded . But newfangled images , with earlier view of the explosion , continue to come in demonstrate its unbelievable scurf :

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

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Update 1:10 premier : SpaceX has located the site of the problem — though not quite the precise cause yet . It appears that the anomaly result from a trouble occur in the atomic number 8 armored combat vehicle , although SpaceX is still strain to find out just what went amiss .

Loss of Falcon vehicle today during propellent filling mathematical operation . uprise around upper stagecoach oxygen tank car . make still unsung . More shortly .

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