SpaceX had not ever attempted to land a rocket on land, and it marked the firm’s first successful attempt to recover a rocket from an orbital flight.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. “I think we’ll probably keep this one on the ground, just [because] it’s kind of unique, it’s the first one we’ve brought back”, he said.
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This week’s Falcon 9 launch, the first since a rocket explosion doomed its June launch (the Falcon 9 is unmanned), went off near-perfect, with 11 satellites launched into orbit on behalf of Orbcomm, a communications company.
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The private space enterprise, headed by entrepreneur Elon Musk, has been trying to build a reusable rocket in an effort to cut space travel costs. The company is owned by Tesla owner Elon Musk.
The company has failed in its earlier attempts to land the Falcon 9’s first stage on a floating ocean platform many times – with the rocket either colliding with the autonomous drone ship or tipping over. The landing Monday night was the first time SpaceX tried to return the Falcon 9 to a target on land. This time, on solid land, it landed gently and vertically to generous applause.
Meanwhile, ORBCOMM said in a statement that all 11 satellites were put in their respective orbit.
Landing the rocket Monday was a giant step toward making spacecraft reusable – a longtime quest of Musk and aerospace engineers. Blue Origin, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’ company, landed a booster during a suborbital flight test run in November.
Moreover, SpaceX’s booster was shooting towards the earth much faster, leading to a more hard and trickier landing, according to Wired.
Musk said a company-led investigation had pointed to the failure of a 2-foot strut holding one of many helium bottles on the rocket’s second stage. A rocket planning to deliver supplies to the International Space Station disintegrated before reaching its destination six months ago.
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“Welcome back, baby!” Musk wrote in a tweet after the successful landing.
