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Thursday, September 1, 2016

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SpaceX rocket just exploded on launch pad at Cape Canaveral

Posted By Monivette Cordeiro on Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:33 AM

#SpaceX #falcon9 pic.twitter.com/JtCzgPdwj1
— Danielle K (@GirlieToNerdy) September 1, 2016

A SpaceX rocket exploded Thursday morning during a test on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral.

In a statement the company reported no one was injured in the explosion at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Statement on this morning's anomaly pic.twitter.com/3Xm2bRMS7T
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 1, 2016

Brevard County Emergency Management says in a statement on Twitter that there's no danger to the public from the explosion.

NEW VIDEO of the @SpaceX explosion at Cape Canaveral. Live coverage right now on @WFTV #SpacexExplosion pic.twitter.com/vnDGbJcs48
— WFTV Eyewitness News (@WFTV) September 1, 2016

Florida Today reports witnesses saw a fireball, heard explosions and felt shock waves several miles away starting around 9 a.m. The newspaper reports:

"The rocket was scheduled to launch the Amos-6 communications satellite for Israeli company Spacecom at 3 a.m. Saturday.

The satellite built by Israeli Aerospace Industries also was destroyed.

Facebook had planned to use some of the satellite's capacity to expand its Internet.org initiative in Africa."

Florida Today reports the rocket was a SpaceX Falcon 9. SpaceX is planning to send astronauts into space to the ISS in the next year and a half.

There is NO threat to general public from catastrophic abort during static test fire at SpaceX launch pad at CCAFS this morning.
— Brevard EOC (@BrevardEOC) September 1, 2016

Tags: spacex, cape canaveral, spacex rocket, space coast, Video, Image

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