Elon Musk is about to revolutionize yet another industry.
The job of sending equipment into space has historically been an expensive affair, and obtaining equipment again in serviceable condition has been near impossible. SpaceX change this.
Make aerospace cheaper
One of the goals of SpaceX has been making spaceflight cheaper and after NASA even decided to outsource all transport from Earth inter alia ISS (International Space Station) has SpaceX worked with varying success against this objective.
the company that Elon Musk started because he wanted to arouse people’s interest in aerospace managed yesterday that no one has managed before, namely sending one of its Falcon 9 rockets into space, then land PHASE1 module to space rocket on a drone-ship at sea.
450 million
> to build a new Falcon 9 rocket costing nearly 450 million, but it uses only a fraction of the fuel on their way into space. Only 1.5 million in fuel used to rocket into orbit.
With this landing is reusable rockets become a reality for the company which is thus well on the way to make space a sustainable industry , with potential applications as commercial assignments for putting satellites in orbit, space tourism and cooperation with NASA and other space agencies.
Right on target
rocket that came into roughly sideways landed almost in the middle of the target, the last ters on the way to their goal met rocket winds of up to 22 meters per second. The platform that the country is about the size of an American football field.
All good things are five
This is the first time they have managed to land the rocket on a seagoing platform , which they have tried to get to five times previously. PHASE1 module called Dragon is the part of the rocket that ensures that Phase 2 module and the Falcon 9 that contains it to be up on the ISS comes out of the earth’s atmosphere.
Falcon9 to reach the International Space Station on Sunday.
See the video of the launch and landing:
Source:
SpaceX
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