On Monday night, Elon Musk and his aerospace company SpaceX made history, finally demonstrating their reusable rocket technology.
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Elon Musk attends the SpaceX Commerical Launch Facility on September 22, 2014. About 10 minutes after the launch, the rocket successfully landed vertically on a landing pad – the first time a rocket has been successfully recovered.
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The landing of the first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida was met with the words, “The Falcon has landed”, on the SpaceX webcast. It was also the second of its type of achievement in a month, following the landing of a rocket by Jeff Bezos owned Blue Origin. “If it can, then the company says it can dramatically lower the cost of space travel”, Brumfiel reports.
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SpaceX’s rocket deployed 11 satellites for telecommunications company ORBCOMM of Fort Lee, N.J. after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
On June 28, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft filled with cargo for the International Space Station exploded a few minutes after lift-off. Welcome to the club! The 11 satellites launched via Falcon 9 yesterday join an existing 31 already in orbit, including six that Falcon 9 launched in 2014. “I think we’ll probably keep this one on the ground, just [because] it’s kind of unique, it’s the first one we’ve brought back”, he said.
Speaking to the press following the Falcon 9’s landing, Musk said: “It’s a revolutionary moment”. He learned the happy truth when he went back into Launch Control and saw video of the standing rocket.
The top officer at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brig. In the space shuttle days, those rockets were single-use only, abandoned to the ocean after launch. The first was hoisting the satellites for OrbComm, a New Jersey-based communication company.
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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”.
