“It seems that the landing was brutal.” The terse statement of the US company SpaceX, which failed Sunday to ask the first floor smooth its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating barge in the Pacific, found a dramatic response in a video posted by his boss Elon Musk.
It was the fourth attempt to ask smoothly the first stage of the rocket on an offshore platform. Last December 22, the company of billionaire Elon Musk had succeeded for the first time to land the first floor of Falcon 9 on the ground near Cape Canaveral eleven minutes after launch.
Satellite Launch Jason 3. The first floor had split Sunday on the second floor, which carries the satellite Jason 3, as 2 minutes 37 expected after takeoff. He later shifted to return the atmosphere to begin its descent to the Pacific, rekindling its engines several times in retro rocket to slow its speed and gently come to rest upright on the barge and ten minutes after launch.
SpaceX believes that the recovery of the first stage of the launcher will significantly reduce launch costs and disrupt the market of the orbiting satellites. Sunday’s launch marks the second flight of SpaceX rocket since the explosion of the launcher in June after taking off from Cape Canaveral.
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