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SpaceX lands rocket upright
The Bezos tweet sparked dozens of comments, nearly all of which criticized him for suggesting that what Blue Origin had done was on the same scale as SpaceX. “Congratulations @SpaceX on your successful vertical landing of the first stage back on Earth!” Another private space ferry company, Blue Origin, owned by Amazon.com founder Jeffrey Bezos, successfully landed a first-stage booster rocket last month after a non-orbital flight.
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SpaceX: SpaceX, the spaceflight company run by billionaire super genius Elon Musk, has successfully landed its powerful Falcon 9 rocket in an upright position without crashing.
A remodelled version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting off on Monday at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the launcher’s first mission since a June failure. But SpaceX has insisted that each attempt has helped engineers come closer to perfecting the technique.
The upgraded, 23-storey-tall Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 9.29am Singapore time yesterday, with the nine-engine suborbital main stage returning 10 minutes later to a landing site a few kilometres south of its launch pad.
This is the third time that SpaceX had tried to land its Falcon 9 boosters-the first two times on a floating platform int he Atlantic.
The mission’s primary objective was commercial: the company had been commissioned to launch satellites for the New Jersey-based communications company OrbComm. In the space shuttle days, those rockets were single-use only, abandoned to the ocean after launch.
The broad concept is the same as it was for the Space Shuttle: If you want to make space travel cost-effective, the vehicle needs to be reusable.
“Lower launch costs mean more space-related endeavors, more startups, more space tourism, more space businesses”, he said.
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It is a well-known fact that till now rockets worth millions get lost in space after the delivery of payload.