SpaceX rocket's first stage tips over during landing after Starlink Satellite launch

SpaceX pressed ahead with plans for back-to-back launches of Starlink internet satellites Wednesday, one from Florida and the other from California. But there were some issues in Florida when the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket toppled over after landing at sea. CBS News senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann has more.

[GoldenTV]

This was it's 23rd landing and launch, incredibly track record. Never been done before in space history. I'm sure this helped them figure out fatigue points and may seek to strengthen those in newer models so it can go beyond 23 landings

[digi]

looks like the hydraulic on the kick stand gave it out after the 23rd landing.

[grmmjhnsn]

Even with a crash/topple, these things are incredibly impressive.

[KYLOWW]

At least the rocket did actually land before it tipped over

[ThienNguyen]

Let's see any other companies land an orbital rocket, let alone 1 rocket 23 times.

[geenerheimer]

This is amazing, 23 launches under her belt. What a success 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[therealAZLN]

I mean... it's been forever since F9 had any sort of failure. It's been a reliable workhorse for years. I'm sure it'll buff out. 23 flights for one booster is pretty damn good.

[eudaenomic]

If you look at the video, you notice the wind is blowing from left to right, the same direction of the fall.

[robindehood]

Looks like one of the landing legs had had enough.

[fishehunteral]

Aside from fixing the wear and tear points after many landings, would a secondary capture system work? Like either 360 air bag deployment or some sort of steel rope capture system to prevent tilting? Obviously I’m no good at engineering. My apologies

[cryptoico]

SpaceX rocket successfully delivered payload, then landed but tip over. All hell break loose, FAA suspend all flights, wants full investigation …. While Boeing space ship is stuck in space for months with very little coverage. No comment from FAA to Boeing 😂

[rkr]

Worth noting that it landed successfully 260 times between now and the last landing fail, and the payload still got where it wanted to go.
Also, SpaceX charges $30M to build one of these things, and charges customers $30M each flight even if it's recycled. At 23 flights, that's only $1.3M to launch, which results in $28.7M profit per launch (so around $0.5B for this booster alone) to fund other development programs like Starship--that way the taxpayer pays a smaller share.

[BukuiZhao]

At least this reports this case in a neutral way unlike most other media outlets where they go straight to making false or factually inaccurate claims where they didn’t do any fact checking.

[AureusApps]

It was a hard landing. May be because of high winds.

[pfrydog]

If the video cut off and that says that the rocket did fall into the ocean.

[Veritas-invenitur]

Statistically inevitable failure that poses no risk to the program. 22nd reuse of the hardware. Company incident rate of 0.8% and average critical failure rate of reused hardware of 3.4%. This reused hardware had a critical failure rate of 4.6% for a positive deviation above mean by 1.2%. Right on track as the spread from mean is +/-1.4%. Numbers don’t lie, nothing to see here accept success.

[kodywalker]

They’re over exaggerating this non-issue.

[jimpiaz]

Is it possible that a powerful signal was transmitted 1.5 seconds before touchdown, causing a momentary interruption of telemetry ?? Who has access to this frequency ??
This is serious failure number two. After how many failures do we begin to suspect sabotage ??
Who benefits from spacex failures ??

[PiDsPagePrototypes]

Shocked to see CBS News report this in a mostly factual way. Well Done. Makes a pleasant change from most mainstream press making it up as they go.

[TwithGazz]

Hundreds of launches and returns by SpaceX and this is what makes the news. Pathetic.