The SpaceX Falcon 9 rests on its launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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The first stage of the Falcon 9 gently touched down at Cape Canaveral 10 minutes after lift-off, to employees’ cheers.
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Needless to say, it was a tremendous success for SpaceX – especially since it’s the first time someone has landed a rocket that has gone as deep into space.
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SpaceX, your Falcon 9 rocket has landed, and oh, what a sight it was.
Monday will be the first time SpaceX will attempt to land the Falcon 9 on land. The deployment completed a 17-satellite array managed by ORBCOMM.
It’s the first successful launch since a rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded in June, and the first recovery of a spent booster for SpaceX. Since then SpaceX has made a total of three flights to the space station, both delivering and returning cargo for NASA.
What’s significant is that this was a useful mission, Musk noted, not merely a practice flight.
A faulty strut was blamed for the June rocket explosion of the Falcon 9 about two minutes after launch, destroying hundreds of millions of dollars in cargo and equipment.
SpaceX Rocket 9 lifts off and successfully lands in Florida.
SpaceX has tried before to land a rocket, but those attempts – all using a floating platform on the ocean – have failed.
A long exposure of the rocket’s launch and re-entry. That rocket, though, had been used for a suborbital flight.
“The Falcon has landed”, SpaceX TV commentators announced. “Welcome to the club”, Bezos said on Twitter Monday night.
The booster-landing zone, a former Atlas missile-launching site, is about six miles from the launch pad. Needless to say, this pushes the cost of space travel through the stratosphere like one of said rockets.
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Mr Musk has said the ability to return its rockets to Earth so they can be refurbished and re-flown would slash his company’s operational costs in the burgeoning and highly competitive private space launch industry.
