Watch the replay of the launch and landing at www.spacex.com and read Elon Musk’s background and thoughts on the mission.
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This week’s Falcon 9 launch, the first since a rocket explosion doomed its June launch (the Falcon 9 is unmanned), went off near-perfect, with 11 satellites launched into orbit on behalf of Orbcomm, a communications company.
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At 8:29 PM EST, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted away from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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“Welcome back, baby!”, Musk said in a celebratory tweet.
A competing rocket company, Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, made a similar landing on November 23, though with a suborbital booster rocket rather than SpaceX’s larger, faster orbital booster. The first stage returned to land following launch.
Musk and others have said that making a reusable rocket would reduce costs by a factor of a hundred – thereby making interplanetary travel possible.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. pulled off the soft, vertical touchdown after the two-stage rocket propelled its payload of 11 Orbcomm Inc. satellites aloft. This was the first rocket launch for SpaceX since the Falcon 9 rocket exploded after its launch earlier this summer. Welcome to the club!
Though attempting to land its reusable rocket was only the mission’s secondary objective, the milestone proves next generation space travel can be both significantly cheaper and more environmental than the off-Earth missions of the 20th century. And in an excerpt from last night’s mission footage pulled out of the stream by The Verge, we can see many of these men and women react to the Falcon 9’s historic landing. “It’s a revolutionary moment”, Musk told the press after the landing.
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The company has previously attempted the feat three times, coming close to landing on a bull’s-eye on a floating barge. The SpaceX booster was more powerful and flying faster in order to put satellites into orbit. “I think we’ll probably keep this one on the ground, just [because] it’s kind of unique, it’s the first one we’ve brought back”, he said.
