“If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space will be reduced by as much as a factor of a hundred”, Musk said on SpaceX’s website.
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Minutes after blastoff, the Falcon 9’s first-stage rocket separated from its upper-stage booster, which continued on into orbit to release ORBCOMM’s satellites about 800 km above the Earth. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket reportedly costs about $55 million to build.
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SpaceX’s rocket deployed 11 satellites for telecommunications company ORBCOMM of Fort Lee, N.J. after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX uses on its missions costs around $60 million, the company told NBC News.
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In a seemingly back-handed compliment to SpaceX, Mr Bezos tweeted a message of congratulations to Mr Musk’s company, saying: “Welcome to the club!” Gen. Wayne Monteith, noted that the returning booster “placed the exclamation mark on 2015”. This marks the third attempt of the company to vertically land a rocket, the first on land.
Blue Origin, another billionaire’s rocket company, successfully landed a booster last month in West Texas. All the satellites are now successfully orbiting the planet.
During an exciting 20-minute launch, landing, and satellite deployment, the gathered crowd at mission control cheered at every successful stage of the mission. The stable surface was marked by a giant X. SpaceX has only managed to land part of the rocket.
The booster-landing zone, a former Atlas missile-launching site, is about six miles from the launch pad. He has said the ability to return his rockets to Earth so that they can be refurbished and reflown would slash his company’s operational costs in the burgeoning and highly competitive private space launch industry.
A day after the first-ever fully successful landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster, space fans around the world are geeking out over the pictures. Three tries at vertical landings of the first-stage boosters earlier this year failed; in each case, the segment aimed for a modified barge off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.
His ultimate goal, for human missions, is Mars.
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“This was a critical step along the way to being able to establish a city on Mars”, he said.
