The Falcon 9 rocket was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit and was also successfully landed after 10 minutes to the Earth.
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Then the roar became deafening, as TV cameras showed the first-stage booster landing right on a giant X at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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SpaceX, the vaunted rocket company owned by investor and entrepreneur Elon Musk, reemerged months after a crash with its best success yet. It is not the first spacecraft to land a booster vertically; that feat was claimed by the much smaller New Shepard rocket in November 2015, but the Falcon 9 reach levels of 200km above the earth, twice that of New Shepard.
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“Welcome back baby”, Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX tweeted after the rocket safely returned. Aiming for a floating landing pad in the ocean, one attempt resulted in an explosion and the other just didn’t quite make it. “The Falcon has landed”, a commentator said above the screams and cheers of people gathered at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
The successful mission delivered 11 satellites to its orbits for launch customer ORBCOMM Inc. A proud Musk called it a “revolutionary moment”. About two minutes into the flight, the rocket’s first-stage separated cleanly from the second stage and began a controlled descent back to Earth.
For the first time, SpaceX flew its leftover booster back to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Following the successful SpaceX landing December 21, Amazon co-founder, Jeff Bezos, who heads Blue Origin, took the opportunity to rejoin the friendly rivalry.
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It will cut down the cost of private space operation as one rocket can be reused and it will not be discarded after single use, considering that in a particular space operation a huge amount is spent on manufacturing of these rockets. And in an excerpt from last night’s mission footage pulled out of the stream by The Verge, we can see many of these men and women react to the Falcon 9’s historic landing.
