“Welcome back, baby!” An over-the-moon Elon Musk has his bragging rights back after SpaceX successfully landed a rocket that sent satellites on a trip round the Earth. The California company, Space X, successfully launched and landed a 15-story rocket Monday night.
Advertisement
DDCA row: Campaign against Arun Jaitley will fail, says BJP
He also said that the defamation suits would not scare him from his path and his fight against corruption would continue. What compounded the crisis for Jaitley and his party was the attack by BJP lawmaker Kirti Azad on the issue.
After deploying the OG2 satellites in a low-Earth orbit, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landed back to the ground.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Smashes All Records
Strong reviews for the film, which is set 30 years after “Return of the Jedi”, have added to the fervor for ” The Force Awakens “. Despite raking in some 7 million worldwide on its opening weekend, it wasn’t enough to knock Jurassic World off the top spot.
“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”. Several other previous attempts to land a Falcon 9 on floating platforms in the Atlantic also were unsuccessful.
WKU comes from behind to beat USF in Miami Beach Bowl
Doughty, playing his final game for Western Kentucky , spotted USF a 14-0 lead and spent much of the first half looking spotty. The South Florida defense has held 6 of 7 Conference opponents below their season scoring average, and one equaled it.
The landing is a major victory for Elon Musk and his aerospace company as it was the company’s first flight since it rocket exploded about six months ago.
“I’d like to congratulate SpaceX on making history by landing the Falcon 9’s reusable stage one booster from a record altitude”, Orbcomm CEO Marc Eisenberg said.
He later told journalists “No one has ever brought a booster, an orbital-class booster, back intact”.
SpaceX Falcon 9 in final seconds of descent to successful touchdown at Landing Zone 1 on Dec 21, 2015.
SpaceX says that with this technology space flight can become cheaper, as they would no longer need to build a new rocket for every launch. “It’s quite shocking.” Musk said the landing appeared close to flawless and the company “could not have asked for a better mission or a better day”.
See below for a the full webcast of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch. This time, Musk opted for a true land landing.
Advertisement
“I think this is a critical step along the way towards being able to establish a city on Mars”, he said on a call with reporters Monday night.
