After successfully sending its Falcon 9 rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida on the satellite launch mission, the company landed a 15-story leftover booster rocket back on Earth.
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On its previous flight back in June, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket failed shortly after liftoff, destroying a supply ship intended for the International Space Station.
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The upgraded, 23-storey-tall Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 9.29am Singapore time yesterday, with the nine-engine suborbital main stage returning 10 minutes later to a landing site a few kilometres south of its launch pad.
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Falcon 9 rocket first stage approaching Landing Zone 1. With the launch on December 21 at 8:29 PM EST, 2015 SpaceX achieved what it had lost twice in the past.
Musk said the landing appeared close to ideal and the company “could not have asked for a better mission or a better day”. Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket made the world’s first successful vertical landing after reaching an altitude of almost 330,000 feet.
“It’s a revolutionary moment”, Elon Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive officer and chief technology officer, told reporters after the landing, according to an Associated Press report. SpaceX landed a rocket named Grasshopper vertically two years ago, but that one didn’t go into space.
“Welcome back, baby!” Musk wrote in a celebratory message he posted on Twitter.
If rocket landings keep happening, many more companies could try to send their own rockets to space.
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.
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“I think we’ll probably keep this one on the ground…it’s kind of unique, it’s the first one we’ve brought back”, he said. Earlier missions tried to land rockets on unmanned barges and hadn’t quite managed to stick the landing. There’s still much work to be done in cutting the costs of space travel, but this is definitely a step in the right direction!
