SpaceX Falcon 9 Crashes in Landing Attempt, After launching the sixth cargo missions to the International Space Station outside of Cape Canaveral in Florida, SpaceX did the latest attempt to do a rocket landing into a boat today. Elon Musk has said in his tweet about 20 minutes after launch, that Rocket has successfully landed on the ship drone but it is difficult to survive.
Almost the entire rocket is only useful when it goes, but it will fall to the earth as rubbish after the fuel is exhausted. This is what will be changed by SpaceX, a private company in the field of space flight. Musk has said that the rocket that could come back to earth without experiencing damage can significantly lower the cost of flight.
Most rockets are only good for one flight, and fall into the sea once their fuel is spent. SpaceX wants to change that by adding landing legs to is rockets, allowing them to be reused. Musk has said that a rocket that can return to Earth and safely touch down could lower the cost of spacecraft by a factor of 100.
The Falcon 9 launched at 4:10 pm Eastern time. The rocket left Earth’s atmosphere, then flipped nearly upside-down before igniting booster rockets to steer itself back toward the ground. It then used side fins and its engines to guide itself toward a drone-operated barge in the Atlantic ocean. It hit the barge, but with too much speed.
Today’s launch was the third attempt to test the system. The first, back in January, failed with fireworks – the rocket hit the barge too fast and at the wrong angle, destroying its landing legs and exploding. The second, in February, was scrubbed due to rough seas.
This attempt was delayed by stormy weather and had a less than 50 per cent chance of success, Musk tweeted before the test.
SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon capsule is now en route to the ISS carrying more than 1900 kilograms of food, equipment, and experiments, including an espresso machine designed to work in space, and a synthetic muscle that may someday help build humanoid robots and better prosthetic limbs. It should arrive at the ISS on Friday.
Almost the entire rocket is only useful when it goes, but it will fall to the earth as rubbish after the fuel is exhausted. This is what will be changed by SpaceX, a private company in the field of space flight. Musk has said that the rocket that could come back to earth without experiencing damage can significantly lower the cost of flight.
Most rockets are only good for one flight, and fall into the sea once their fuel is spent. SpaceX wants to change that by adding landing legs to is rockets, allowing them to be reused. Musk has said that a rocket that can return to Earth and safely touch down could lower the cost of spacecraft by a factor of 100.
The Falcon 9 launched at 4:10 pm Eastern time. The rocket left Earth’s atmosphere, then flipped nearly upside-down before igniting booster rockets to steer itself back toward the ground. It then used side fins and its engines to guide itself toward a drone-operated barge in the Atlantic ocean. It hit the barge, but with too much speed.
Today’s launch was the third attempt to test the system. The first, back in January, failed with fireworks – the rocket hit the barge too fast and at the wrong angle, destroying its landing legs and exploding. The second, in February, was scrubbed due to rough seas.
This attempt was delayed by stormy weather and had a less than 50 per cent chance of success, Musk tweeted before the test.
SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon capsule is now en route to the ISS carrying more than 1900 kilograms of food, equipment, and experiments, including an espresso machine designed to work in space, and a synthetic muscle that may someday help build humanoid robots and better prosthetic limbs. It should arrive at the ISS on Friday.
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