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Falcon 9 AMOS-6 Explosion
A rocket stands silent on the Florida coast, its skin shimmering in the humid air. For SpaceX, this is just another day—a launch pad, a satellite, a countdown. But beneath the surface, confidence and risk are quietly trading places.By late summer two thousand sixteen, Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex Forty had become a symbol of modern launch cadence. SpaceX was no longer the upstart; it was a launch provider with a rhythm—Falcon Nine rockets rising with increasing regularity. The pad, set against a flat landscape of salt air and steel towers, felt almost safe through repetition. Each…
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