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SpaceX rocket blasts to space and back, sticks the landing
While SpaceX’s famous founder Elon Musk is typically the focus of conversations surrounding the company, many more men and women are involved with the company’s endeavors.
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According to The Washington Post, a Falcon 9 rocket created to deliver satellites into orbit took off from Cape at 8.29 p.m. on Monday with a payload of 11 commercial communications satellites.
Nonetheless the Falcon-9 flight, which also went twice as high as New Shepard, is a milestone towards reusing rockets. Spacex has also suffered some major losses in its quest for successful landing of rockets.
On the SpaceX webcast, one person said it was like “launching a pencil over the Empire State Building, having it reverse, come back down, and land on a shoebox on the ground during a windstorm”. The Falcon 9 rocket put 11 ORBCOMM satellites into orbit as planned in SpaceX’s first mission since they had a rocket unexpectedly explode just moments into an ISS resupply mission. Welcome to the club!
The grid fins, located near the top of the rocket help steer it. As it nears the landing site, engineers light the engines once more to help guide it, while the landing legs are deployed. That effort was thwarted when the fins meant to guide the rocket’s descent stopped working, and it crashed into the drone ship it was meant to land on. Now that SpaceX has launched and landed a rocket, Musk says the company is planning to launch a rocket, land it, and launch it again “sometime next year”. Typically, first-stage rockets are destroyed after one use, making space travel extremely expensive. “No-one has ever brought a booster, an orbital-class booster, back intact”. The launch and landing occurred at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
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The SpaceX was able to achieved the incredible event in space history nearly a century after Wright Brothers set a plane fly.