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SpaceX makes history, successfully lands reusable rocket
It’s a welcome end to the year for SpaceX, which had to deal with a debacle in June when a Falcon 9 rocket exploded shortly after takeoff, destroying a supply shipment intended for the International Space Station.
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The upgraded, 23-storey-tall rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the main stage returning about 10 minutes later to a landing site about 9.65km (6 miles) south of its launch pad.
United States company SpaceX has successfully landed an unmanned rocket upright, after sending 11 satellites into orbit. It remains to be known if the Falcon 9 is reusable after its landing.
Elon Musk and his company, SpaceX, have made history in the field of space travel.
“Welcome back, baby!” the company’s CEO tweeted following the successful landing.
“Thus has been a wildly successful return to flight for SpaceX”, one launch commentator at the company reportedly said. It landed at Landing Zone 1, a former launch complex for Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles that SpaceX leased.
SpaceX has tried this landing twice before-once in January and again in April.
It was carrying 11 satellites for New Jersey-based Orbcomm.
Though many may argue this has been done before – when Blue Origin landed its rocket on November 25 – they are two separate beasts.
SpaceX, short for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, of California, returned to space flight after its last launch attempt six months ago disintegrated, the New York Times reported. It’s hard to tell the scale of the Falcon 9 first stage after only seeing it in video or standing alone on the landing pad.
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The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off without a hitch on Monday, delivered its satellite payload into low-earth orbit, then gently touched down back at Cape Canaveral in Florida.