When everything then looked like a go on Sunday, Musk tweeted that he had made a decision to wait one day when the conditions for landing the rocket looked 10% better.
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Its successful landing on Monday was SpaceX’s first attempt to land the rocket on solid ground.
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“It was the first time an unmanned rocket returned to land vertically at Cape Canaveral, The Associated Press reports”. Minutes later, the second stage separated from the first and continued to propel its payload into higher orbit.
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A remodeled version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rests on its pad as it is prepared for launch at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Hundreds of SpaceX employees cheered the touchdown at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. “USA! USA!” Its main goal is to blast OrbComm’s satellites to orbit and show the world that it has recovered from the June 28 disaster, which cost NASA and taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. All 11 were successfully deployed. The upper stage continued its ascent to launch its payload. The ORBCOMM-2 mission will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The reinforced concrete provides a stable surface, unlike the barges used for the initial attempts, primarily for increased safety.
The landing was extremely hard, one SpaceX spokesman said during the live broadcast of the mission. Musk told reporters afterward that the rocket touched down “almost dead center on the landing pad”. If successful, SpaceX will be back in business with its first successful delivery for a paying customer. The company still has more than three-dozen launches already booked there for coming years.
In that instance, a Falcon 9 rocket was tasked with delivering supplies to astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The new flight would end SpaceX’s six-month hiatus from space travel, which started in June when a rocket exploded minutes after launching from a faulty strut.
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“Space X hopes it can recycle the first stage and use it again on future space flights”. The first stage on all rockets is suborbital by their very nature, as single-stage-to-orbit hasn’t been accomplished yet.
