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The global mission is led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) along with Nasa, French space agency CNES, and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.
Musk’s SpaceX and Sierra Nevada are at the forefront of businesses looking forward to reuse pricey craft for squeezing expenses so that spaceflight becomes more reasonable for customers.
SpaceX had tried once before to land a rocket on a platform in the ocean but that failed pretty spectacularly.
The 22-story tall rocket lifted off through thick fog from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast at 10:42 am PST (1842 GMT).
The rocket’s center engine, one of nine Merlin engines on the Falcon 9 first stage, fired to put on the brakes just as the vehicle approached the drone ship named “Just Read the Instructions” after a starship featured in science fiction writer Iain Banks’ novels.
Despite the explosive result, this is the closest the company has come to successfully landing a booster at sea.
Jason-3 was built by Thales Alenia of France.
But he adds the ship landings are necessary for “high velocity missions”.
While SpaceX has another rocket landing attempt to learn from, backers were also able to celebrate the successful deployment of the Jason-3 satellite.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Jason-3 spacecraft onboard is shown at Vandenberg Air Force Base S …
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In a Tweet on Sunday, Musk acknowledged the difficulty of landing a rocket on an ocean barge. But the rocket tipped over in the final moments and was destroyed. The flight also marks the final outing for the v1. Its successor, Jason-1, operated from 2001 to 2013. SpaceX’s next launch is another satellite, this time for communications firm SES, scheduled to blast off in February. The first “Full Thrust” Falcon 9 was used during the historic rocket recovery launch on December 21, 2015. Even a year ago, he projected success of landing on a floating platform as a 50-50 proposition.
