During the launch, SpaceX attempted to bring its launch vehicle back to Earth, but the rocket was lost before it could made a landing on a drone barge in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, reported CNN.
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Launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS-2A will be respectively controlled by satellites operator Eutelsat Communications and ABS.
The next Falcon 9 rocket will head to the International Space Station next month.
SpaceX failed to keep the winning momentum as Falcon 9 crashed after launching the satellite. A report by ABCNews points out that the attempt came minutes after the Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched two satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The rocket launched Wednesday morning. SpaceX was covering the landing through a live video feed, but it was suddenly cut out just as the reusable spacecraft was landing on the platform. He also tweeted yesterday that the company is working on upgrading the landing system of the Falcon 9 rockets to prevent these kinds of close-call failures in the future.
The rocket earlier successfully boosted into orbit a communications satellite for the French firm Eutelsat and another for Bermuda-based ABS.
Shortly after that confusion, we learned on the broadcast (and from Elon Musk on Twitter) that the Falcon 9 first stage didn’t make it, and now we see why.
It was SpaceX’s sixth launch of the year.
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Musk also expressed concern that the rocket had experienced the hardest crash of all and landed so hard that it had destroyed the droneship dock. “Probably get there end of year”.
