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SpaceX rocket accident leaves Starlink satellites in wrong orbit
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FILE: An evening launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, from Space Launch Complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base is seen over the Pacific Ocean from Encinitas, California, June 23, 2024. FILE - An antenna of the Starlink satellite-based broadband system donated by the U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk is seen in Izyum, Kharkiv region, Sept. 25, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A SpaceX rocket failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company's internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up.
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