![]() “It’s still quite tricky to land on a ship…it’s quite a tiny target.” “We thought it was more likely than not that this mission would work, but still probably have a 1/3 chance of failure,” Musk said. Musk said that before today’s launch, company members were placing the odds of success at 2:1. Previous attempts failed when earlier rockets toppled over and experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” (i.e., they exploded). ![]() It’s the fifth time SpaceX has tried to park a rocket on a ship in 2015, the company successfully set a rocket back down on the ground, but landing at sea is much trickier than landing on…land…because the ocean is a moving beast. To space and back, in less than nine minutes? Hello, future. Dragon in good orbit,” Space X tweeted, in what must be the most understated announcement of the successful landing to cross our feed. “The 1st stage of the Falcon 9 just landed on our ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ droneship. As it approached the drone ship, named “Of Course I Still Love You,” the Falcon 9 righted itself, slowed down, and landed perfectly. “The rocket landed instead of putting a hole in the ship, or tipping over, so we’re really excited about that,” said SpaceX founder Elon Musk at a press conference after the landing.Īfter launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the SpaceX rocket boosted its payload-carrying Dragon capsule toward low Earth orbit, then turned around and headed for home about 4.5 minutes after launch. It’s the first time anyone has done this, and it signals a step forward in making spaceflight significantly cheaper. SpaceX launched a bouncy house to the International Space Station on Friday-and then successfully turned the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket around, flew it back to Earth, and parked it on a drone ship floating 185 miles (300 kilometers) off the U.S.
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