The 23-story-high Falcon 9 went almost 125 miles (200 km) into space before separating its second stage to deliver 11 ORBCOMM satellites. Landing a first-stage rocket back to Earth is part of SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s goal of reusing rockets in order to reduce the cost of space travel. This video, which SpaceX released Tuesday, shows the vertical landing from the vantage point of a helicopter hovering nearby.
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The primary mission was to put 11 small satellites into low orbit for Orbcomm’s new satellite network. Elon Musk called the failure a “huge blow”.
Plenty of other individuals and entities equally excited about space chimed in – including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, whose rocket company landed the New Shepard after a suborbital flight last month. Typically, first-stage rockets are destroyed after one use, making space travel extremely expensive.
SpaceX said a few tweaks likely helped the rocket achieve its mission and land safely. Two previous attempts – in January and April of this year – ended poorly when the rocket wasn’t able to get into the correct angle for landing on a floating landing pad, causing explosions in both cases. “No one has ever brought an orbital class booster back intact”.
It was the first time a rocket launched into orbit successfully made a controlled landing on Earth.
The latest rocket launched by SpaceX named Falcon 9 v1.
After Monday’s landing, SpaceX announced it had more rockets in development that are created to pull off the same maneuver.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands upright at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX launches satellites into orbit and flies cargo to the space station.
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The most notable quote in Musk’s press conference came when he discussed how the Falcon 9’s safe landing could contribute to the future colonization of Mars, with the billionaire saying: “I think it really quite dramatically improves my confidence that a city on Mars is possible”.
