SpaceX claims it has corrected the Falcon 9 and will restart launches

SpaceX has completed its investigation into the cause of an engine failure during the July 11 Falcon 9 launch. The company has submitted an "incident report" to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and is preparing to return the Falcon 9 rocket to flight as soon as tomorrow. The company's investigation team cooperated with FAA to determine that the failure on July 11 was caused by the second stage of the Falcon 9 engine caused by the liquid oxygen leak produced by the initial burning. It said that leakage originated from the cracks in the sensor sensor sensor, which is part of the rocket oxygen system. Often, the clamps that hold the sensor wires in place loosen when exposed to strong engine vibration, eventually causing them to fatigue and crack.

In a statement on SpaceX's website, a leak of liquid oxygen from the Falcon 9 rocket's upper stage caused "excessive cooling of engine components, particularly those related to the supply of ignition fluid to the engine." Instead of performing another controlled burn, the engine experienced what SpaceX describes as a "hard start," causing damage to the engine and resulting in a loss of upper-level control. The Falcon 9's first stage performed as expected during launch on July 11 and landed safely for recycling, but the failure put the Falcon 9's Starlink satellites into a lower orbit where there is "extremely high drag." causing all 20 satellites to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and hopefully burn up. To get the Falcon 9 back into flight as soon as possible, SpaceX engineers will simply remove the damaged sensor wires and sensors from the second stage engine. "The Flight Safety System does not use the sensor, which can be covered by the reserve sensor that already existed on the engine." Under the supervision of FAA, SpaceX has tested these changes in its facilities in McGregor, Texas.

Now that the investigation is complete, the Falcon 9 rocket is no longer grounded and can return to service. SpaceX is targeting July 27 at 12:21 a.m. ET for the next Falcon 9 launch carrying 23 Starlink satellites from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, with additional launch windows later in the day and on July 28, according to the company's website. The Met and the state of Texas have reached a huge settlement over the "tag suggestion" feature Facebook added to photos more than a decade ago. Texas announced a massive settlement with the Met over Facebook's use of facial recognition, settling a 2022 lawsuit that alleged a "tag suggestion" feature used in photos uploaded to Facebook violated the state's Capture or Use of Biometric Identifiers (CUBI) and deceptive marketing laws practices. ". Action. Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion over five years to settle the lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office announced today.

According to Paxton, it is the largest settlement ever reached in a single state lawsuit. He says it is also the first trial and settlement under Cube and acts as a warning to other companies in violation of private privacy rights. "Any abuse of Texan's secret data will be executed with a complete power of law," Paxton said in a press release. These are the suggestions prepared for Facebook for people to mark photos. "In 2011, threw a new feature originally called roof suggestions, which would have been improved by the user's experience, making users easier to" photography with the words of the image people, "said press press release in a press release Two years ago, Texas passed the CUBI Act, which prohibits companies from collecting biometric data, such as facial geometry, without prior informed consent. The attorney general's office said that Facebook's automated tag recommendations "collected and used the personal biometric data of millions of Texans without authorization of legal claims." Initially, the lawsuit claimed a civil fine of $ 25,000 and breached each Texas Deats Deats Convention law with $ 10,000. According to the Wall Street Journal, these fines could reach hundreds of billions of dollars. The company does not recognize any wrong behavior in reconciliation. In 2017, Facebook introduced "Opening/Level" control with label suggestions, which was replaced by a wider face recognition settings in 2019. Then, it stopped automated facial tagging in photos in 2021.

“We are pleased to resolve this matter, and look forward to exploring future opportunities to deepen our business investments in Texas, including potentially developing data centers,” Meta spokesperson Christopher Sgro said in an email. Meta's privacy procedures have been under increased scrutiny from regulators across the world following the Cambridge Analytica crisis in 2018, which revealed that a political consultant inappropriately obtained the personal information of 87 million Facebook users. In 2019, Meta consented to a $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.