SpaceX: Rocket to shift Florida flight launches to new pad after explosion of Falcon 9

SpaceX said on Friday it would shift Florida flights to a nearly completed second site after damage to its launch pad on Thursday caused by the explosion of an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket belonging to the space services company run by Elon Musk. 

The Federal Aviation Administration has sent seven people to Florida to supervise the investigation of the disaster, said FAA spokesman Hank Price. The agency, which oversees U.S. commercial rocket launches, requires that SpaceX’s flights be suspended pending results of the probe. 

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.