A historic moment was repeated on Monday, when Elon Musk’s SpaceX landed the first stage of a rocket on its launch pad in Cape Canaveral.
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“The Falcon has landed”, a commentator said Monday above the screams and cheers of people gathered at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. This time, on solid land, it landed gently and vertically to generous applause.
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Its engines burning bright orange against the dark night sky, the Falcon 9 made a graceful arc back to Earth and touched down upright at Cape Canaveral, Florida, minutes after launching a payload of satellites to orbit, video images showed. Safely landing rockets is also expected to herald improvements in propulsion that would make humans land and take off from Mars.
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A rocket flying toward the ground is usually a bad sign, but for aerospace company SpaceX, it was a huge success.
The Falcon 9 launches like any other rocket.
The mission, capped by delivery of all 11 satellites to orbit for launch customer ORBCOMM, unfolded in just over 30 minutes.
The Falcon 9 rocket’s landing marks the company’s return to flight after half a year with an upgraded design that worked to perfection. Jeff Bezos tweeted a congratulatory message, but tongue in cheek, emphasising who did it first.
If it’s 100 times cheaper to send something into space, imagine how many more companies would be able to launch space ventures, ranging from satellites to commercial space flights. It marked a pivotal reversal of fortunes for privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, which was founded by high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Reusable rockets, however, would mean cargo could be sent into space with only the fuel and maintenance costs to consider.
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“There’s potential to reduce launch costs substantially, maybe as much as 75 percent”, said Christensen.
