SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket first stage made a successful landing upright on solid ground at Cape Canaveral Florida.
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SpaceX successfully landed its powerful Falcon 9 rocket in an upright position at Cape Canaveral, an historic first in the company’s bid to make reusable rockets.
The return of a rocket’s first stage to Earth is a very big deal because single-use launch vehicles are more expensive than re-usable craft.
Monday will be the first time SpaceX will attempt to land the Falcon 9 on land. However while the rocket did land successfully, Musk said it would not fly again – first it will undergo tests to see in what shape the landing left it and if a second takeoff is conceivable. Its main goal was to blast OrbComm’s satellites to orbit and show the world that it recovered from the June 28 disaster, which cost NASA and taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Aside from the return on land, this launch was also different since it used an upgraded Falcon 9 that stands slightly taller than predecessors at 229.6 feet and has more thrust. In November, Jeff Bezos’ private spaceflight company Blue Origin announced that it had landed its rocket New Shepard post-launch.
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The blast also destroyed its Dragon cargo ship loaded with supplies for the astronauts living in space and came just eight months after a space station-bound rocket belonging to competitor Orbital blew up over a Virginia launch pad.
