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SpaceX Falcon 9 suffers in-flight catastrophic engine failure

The engine powering a SpaceX rocket's second launch stage suffered a catastrophic failure, and possibly an explosion, while carrying another batch of Starlink internet satellites from California on Thursday, company founder Elon Musk posted early Friday on social media. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has more on what happened and the new images released from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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