SpaceX makes history: It launched a used rocket and then landed it in the ocean
Source: CNN
SpaceX makes history: It launched a used rocket and then landed it in the ocean
by Jackie Wattles
March 30, 2017: 7:52 PM ET
It worked!
Just before 6:30 pm ET, SpaceX -- run by Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk -- launched a used rocket. It marked the first time in the history of spaceflight that the same rocket has been used on two separate missions to orbit.
After successfully launching a satellite toward geosynchronous orbit -- 22,000 miles into space -- the rocket then returned to Earth and landed on a remotely piloted platform, known as a droneship, in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the company's sixth successful landing on a seaborne platform.
The SpaceX video showed the empty droneship, named Of Course I Still Love You, awaiting the return of the rocket, set against a deep blue ocean background. The video feed cut out momentarily and then came back on to show the rocket standing upright on the platform. The landing took place about eight minutes after launch.
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