50+ Spacex Rocket Launch Pad Pictures. It is not clear yet exactly what caused the explosion, but elon musk announced that it occurred while the rocket was being filled with. Spacex modified the launch pad in 2013 in order to support launches of the falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle, a 60 percent heavier rocket with 60 percent more thrust on realigned engines10 and 60 percent longer fuel tank than the v1.0 version of the falcon 9, requiring a modified transporter/erector.

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The accident during prelaunch testing heavily damaged that pad. Et on sunday from pad 39a at nasa's kennedy space center in florida. No one was injured, and now spacex says they are.

The launch pad, which is being leased by spacex for six years, was used to send neil armstrong to the moon.

The rectangle which the rocket launches through is huge.from the ground to the bottom of the candle stick is 250 feet tall. A spacex rocket explodes on the launch pad at the air force station in cape canaveral, florida, on thursday morning. It is now delayed 24 hours. A spacex rocket blew up on a launchpad in florida, marking the spacex is restoring a second pad for human space flight on the florida cape and building another launch facility in texas.