The company led by billionaire Elon Musk is striving for reusability to drive launch costs down and open up space to more people.
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Last night, the upgraded Falcon 9 rocket, which had had 18 successful launches prior, took off from Cape Canaveral, traveled 125 miles into space, and then returned to land approximately 6 miles from the launch pad.
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The landing is a huge victory for Musk and his team, who were sidelined after the explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket in June as it carried the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.
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“Welcome back, baby!” SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted after touchdown. In its previous attempts, SpaceX had tried to land the rocket on ocean platforms, but with no success. SpaceX attempted a second precision landing later in April 2015 on water, and the rocket impressively came within 10 meters of its target.
Landing rockets upright is crucial to cutting the cost of space travel, since that means the rockets can be reused. The latest mission was capped by delivery of all 11 satellites to orbit for customer Orbcomm.
The landing of the first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida was met with the words, “The Falcon has landed”, on the SpaceX webcast. Welcome to the club! For example, the company flew a prototype called Grasshopper numerous times in 2012 and 2013, bringing the booster back down for soft landings at SpaceX’s Texas test site after brief flights that reached a maximum altitude of 2,440 feet (744 meters). The rocket made it to the drone ship, but landed hard.
“I do think it’s a revolutionary moment”.
Anna, manufactures the more than three-story-long tooling to produce the booster’s landing legs.
It is not the first spacecraft to land a booster vertically; that feat was claimed by the much smaller New Shepard rocket in Texas last month. The first was hoisting the satellites for OrbComm, a New Jersey-based communication company.
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Musk says a Falcon 9 costs in the range of $16 million, but the fuel (mostly oxygen and a gas) costs only $200,000 per launch.
