The 23-story rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:29 pm, launched 11 satellites, and landed six miles away from the launch pad minutes later.
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SpaceX sent a Falcon rocket soaring toward orbit Monday night with 11 small satellites, its first mission since an accident last summer.
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For decades, Cape Canaveral served as the iconic launch site for countless missions to space, and now thanks to SpaceX, the legendary facility has also seen a rocket landing shortly after launching a payload into space.
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The launch and landing in Cape Canaveral, Florida, were the first from the private US spaceflight company since its rocket exploded on liftoff in June.
The idea is to reuse the the rockets that return to Earth, making launches much less expensive in the future.
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 and successfully lands booster back on a landing pad. SpaceX CEO Musk noted that it costs $16 million to manufacture the Falcon 9, but only $200,000 to fuel the rocket. “Welcome back, baby!” Elon Musk tweeted after touchdown. The SpaceX rocket is faster and more complex, meaning it was a bit harder to pull off than Blur Origin’s test, but it’s still huge.
A day after the first-ever fully successful landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster, space fans around the world are geeking out over the pictures.
Musk called the landing “absolutely flawless”, according to CBS, saying, “We could not have asked for a better mission”.
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SpaceX has taken a major step toward slashing the cost of satellite launches, safely returning one of its launchers to the ground in reverse. It hopes to resume supply runs for NASA in February. As this technology develops, it will make recreational space travel, new manned expeditions to the Moon, and even to Mars, considerably more cost-effective. Although the rocket reached the booster platform at sea, it did not land perfectly.
