GEOSTATIONARY. The Falcon 9 rocket took off like 21 to 7 am (Paris time) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this Friday, May 6, 2016. Thirty-two minutes later, the pitcher s’ is separated from the Japanese communications satellite JCSAT-14 which is placed in Earth orbit. The top launcher 70 meters then fell, then rotated to slow his fall using its thrusters, and finally managed a perfect landing on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. Install the first stage of the rocket was this time far more complicated than the previous (and first) operation’s success 9 April 2016. In fact, the Falcon 9 launch vehicle this time was dedicated to deposit in geostationary orbit (very high because at over 35,000 km) a new satellite in the fleet of the Japanese operator Sky Perfect JSAT Corp. The operation required an additional thrust from the first stage of the launcher that is fallen from a greater height and therefore with much greater velocity than the previous test. To the point that SpaceX initially thought the chances of success very low.
Launch from 30 minutes on video, landing on the barge 8 minutes later.
While history will record that it is a competitor, Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and company Blue Origin, which was the first in 2015 to land her rocket “New Shepard” after a suborbital flight. In addition, it was the first, showed that it was possible to reuse this launcher after landing, repeating the feat three times . But the feat Friday, May 6, 2016, SpaceX demonstrates its ability to bring to earth the first stage of a rocket from a height never before reached. SpaceX intends to perfect this technique for power in the future reuse these parts of rockets instead of losing them in the ocean after launch.
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