AI-assisted summary A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster suffered damage during a Starlink mission landing, resulting in a rare sight at Port Canaveral. The booster experienced a fire and tipped over on the drone ship after successfully launching the satellites. This incident marks the second time a SpaceX Falcon 9 has experienced a mishap during landing in the span of a year. A scorched and disfigured Falcon 9 arrived at Port Canaveral Wednesday − a rare sight among the routine space hardware that regularly comes through the port. The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted body of the rocket hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only tell-tale sign that the object had been a Falcon 9 rocket were the nine engines still intact. SpaceX usually successfully lands the first stage of their Falcon 9 rockets. But this one had experienced a rare accident after Sunday night's Starlink launch. It appeared to be a routine Starlink mission, with the booster landing, as planned, just over eight minutes into the mission after lifting off from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX live video showed this footage for a few seconds after the 9:30 p.m. landing on Just Read the Instructions drone ship before cutting back to the animation of the rocket's second stage ascending to orbit. However, not all went smoothly once the cameras turned off. According to SpaceX, a fire broke out in the bottom part of the first-stage booster which damaged the landing leg. This caused the booster to tip over onto the drone ship.