Elon Musk's rocket manufacturing company SpaceX reportedly lost ground control for at least an hour during the Polaris Dawn mission in September which included the first-ever private spacewalk.

What Happened: The loss of ground control was caused by a power outage at a California facility of SpaceX, according to a report by Reuters, which cited three people familiar with the matter.

The SpaceX mission control was unable to command its Dragon spacecraft in orbit during the outage but the vehicle remained safe and maintained some communication with the ground with the help of the company's Starlink satellite...