Unlike previous attempts, where SpaceX landed their rockets on ocean platforms, this was the first where the Falcon 9 rocket was able to land on dry ground. SpaceX has more Falcon 9 launches (and booster landings) scheduled, and will hopefully test its massive Falcon Heavy next year; this is essentially three Falcon 9s strapped together, and will have a higher lift capacity than any other rocket on Earth. The Falcon 9 isn’t the first time that an unmanned spacecraft has ever taken off and landed successfully, but it’s a first for an orbital rocket.
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SpaceX employees broke into cheers and chants, some of them jumping up and down, following the smooth touchdown nine minutes after liftoff. It was the first attempt at landing the 15-story Falcon 9 rocket after launch since one exploded in June.
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SpaceX successfully launched and landed a rocket Monday night, and it was carrying a New Jersey payload. The rewards would be obvious, however: Musk has said the Falcon 9 costs around $16 million to build and only $200,000 to fuel. SpaceX commentators called it “incredibly exciting” and were visibly moved by the feat. And this time, the rocket returned to earth unscathed, checking off another milestone for reuseable rockets. But the SpaceX feat, which the company had characterised before launch as a “secondary test objective”, was achieved during an actual commercial mission.
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The 23-storey-tall rocket took off from Cape Canaveral with the main stage returning about 10 minutes later to a landing site six miles south of the launch pad. “We made history today”.
Monday’s event is the first launch of the Falcon 9 rocket since a failed mission to the International Space Station in June.
The goal of reusability has been a holy grail for private spaceflight industry, since recovering key components of the spacecraft could dramatically bring down the price of getting stuff and people into space.
Investigators traced the problem to a faulty support beam that held a bottle of helium inside the rocket’s upper-stage liquid oxygen tank.
The company is owned by Tesla owner Elon Musk.
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The company’s first try at landing the rocket was in January.
