SpaceX just pulled off a revolutionary rocket launch
SpaceX, Musk's rocket company, launched one of its 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rockets at 6:27 p.m. EDT on March 30. The two-stage rocket delivered a telecommunications satellite into orbit.
But the biggest moment came just minutes after launch, when the first-stage booster fell back to Earth.
The rocket's booster is the largest and "most expensive part of the rocket," Musk said, and the one used Thursday had previously launched and landed itself on April 8, 2016.
Today that booster again detached from its payload, fell back to Earth, and safely landed on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The event marks the first time in history that any part of a commercial, liquid-fueled orbital rocket has been successfully recovered, reused, and recovered again.
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SpaceX, Musk's rocket company, launched one of its 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rockets at 6:27 p.m. EDT on March 30. The two-stage rocket delivered a telecommunications satellite into orbit.
But the biggest moment came just minutes after launch, when the first-stage booster fell back to Earth.
The rocket's booster is the largest and "most expensive part of the rocket," Musk said, and the one used Thursday had previously launched and landed itself on April 8, 2016.
Today that booster again detached from its payload, fell back to Earth, and safely landed on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The event marks the first time in history that any part of a commercial, liquid-fueled orbital rocket has been successfully recovered, reused, and recovered again.
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an immense risk taker and put everything into his project. And they paid out at last.
