SpaceX has successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket from a space trip for the very first time.
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When the rocket landed, a SpaceX commentator announced, “The Falcon has landed”.
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Jeff Bezos’s private spaceflight company, Blue Origins, successfully landed a rocket in June, although it only went into suborbital space, not all the way into orbit.
Livestreams from SpaceX’s headquarters showed employees breaking into cheers as the rocket touched down at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Monday’s launch was the first since SpaceX redesigned and upgraded the powerful rocket.
The mission’s primary objective was to deploy 11 small satellites into low orbit.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket during lift-off.
SpaceX has been trying for some time to ideal its reusable rocket technology. It’s hard to tell the scale of the Falcon 9 first stage after only seeing it in video or standing alone on the landing pad.
“Welcome back, baby”, Mr Musk said in a celebratory tweet.
The Falcon-9 11 communications satellites were despatched by rocket booster before returning to an erect position at Cape Canaveral. Aiming for a floating landing pad in the ocean, one attempt resulted in an explosion and the other just didn’t quite make it.
ORBCOMM chief executive officer Marc Eisenberg called it a “bullseye” landing via Twitter. There’s still much work to be done in cutting the costs of space travel, but this is definitely a step in the right direction!
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In June an unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded after blast off as it was heading to the International Space Station.
