This graphic provided by SpaceX illustrates the landing sequence of the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. This video, which SpaceX released Tuesday, shows the vertical landing from the vantage point of a helicopter hovering nearby.
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SpaceX commentators described the launching and return – the initial time an orbital rocket successfully reached a restricted landing on Earth – as “very exciting”.
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SpaceX and Elon Musk had just set new milestone for the space industry.
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Watch the replay of the launch and landing at www.spacex.com and read Elon Musk’s background and thoughts on the mission.
The first stage, which houses most of the fuel and all nine of the rocket’s eponymous engines, was traveling at a speed of almost 3,000 miles per hour (5,000 kilometers per hour) when it separated from the second stage.
Miriam Kramer contributed reporting. It’s the first time SpaceX has been able to gently touch down the Falcon 9 post-launch – something the company has been trying to do for the past year.
The mission’s primary objective was to deploy 11 small satellites into low orbit. There is no denying the fact that right now rockets worth millions get lost in space after the payload is launched. Typically, first-stage rockets are destroyed after one use, making space travel extremely expensive.
Falcon 9 has a two-stage configuration.
Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, the top commander at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, was quoted by a news agency as saying that the returning booster “placed the exclamation mark on 2015”. The 11 satellites launched via Falcon 9 yesterday join an existing 31 already in orbit, including six that Falcon 9 launched in 2014. The first stage returned to land following launch.
After an ecstatic Musk took to Twitter to boast about going “there and back again”, Bezos threw shade.
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“Lower launch costs mean more space-related endeavors, more startups, more space tourism, more space businesses”, he said.
