The Falcon rocket blasted off from the USA spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying 11 small satellites into low-Earth orbit for communications firm OrbComm. Forecasters are now predicting a 90 percent chance of favorable weather, and liftoff from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is targeted for 8:29 p.m. EST (GMT-5) Sunday.
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When they found him, Tian told rescuers his name and that there was another person buried near him, according to the transcript. Firefighters had to squeeze into a narrow room around Tian and pull debris out by hand, rescuer Zhang Yabin told Xinhua.
The mission, capped by delivery of all 11 satellites to orbit for launch customer ORBCOMM, unfolded in just over 30 minutes. 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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A rocket flying toward the ground is usually a bad sign, but for aerospace company SpaceX, it was a huge success.
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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.
The Falcon 9 has landed.
“SpaceX had never done a land landing until last night”.
“Falcon 9 rockets are already the cheapest in the industry”.
The ability to launch, land, refurbish, and relaunch rockets with the reliability of an airliner is widely seen as crucial if humanity is to become a truly spacefaring civilization. Although SpaceX will carry out testing on the Falcon 9 to ensure everything is still in working order, Musk is quoted as saying it most likely won’t fly again.
Musk said a company-led investigation had blamed the disaster on the failure of a 2-foot-long steel strut that had been holding a helium bottle in the second-stage. Jeff Bezos tweeted a congratulatory message, but tongue in cheek, emphasising who did it first. Musk told reporters following Monday’s launch. The mission was also the first time SpaceX has successfully landed a rocket after sending it into space.
Elon Musk attends the SpaceX Commerical Launch Facility on September 22, 2014.
Creating reusable rockets is important for lowering the cost of space travel, which could make space tourism and a trip to Mars more feasible.
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Musk described Monday’s landing as “a revolutionary moment” during the teleconference, noting that “no one has ever brought an orbital class booster back intact”.
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“The Falcon 9 rocket we are about to launch has higher performance than the prior version due mostly to increased boost thrust, deep cryo oxidizer and a much larger upper stage engine bell”, Elon Musk, SpaceX founder, said prior to Falcon’s launch. There has been a lot of arduous work put into these efforts, and they are finally paying off. SpaceX is proven to be more resilient than expected.
