Watch: SpaceX rocket fails to land on drone ship, topples over and explodes

[amarnathkvk]

New Delhi: Tesla founder Elon Musk's spacecraft company SpaceX re-attempted to launch the Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday morning. Though the rocket shot the Jason-3 ocean-measuring satellite into the orbit successfully, it failed in its attempt to land the spent first stage on a ship in the ocean.

The rocket shot on time at 10: 42 a.m. PST (1842 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California, but 25 minutes after liftoff, the first stage suffered a hard landing and exploded as leg 3 didn't lockout and was within 1.3 meters of the drone ship center. Musk later posted a video of the attempted landing and the explosion that followed on Instagram.

The offshore landing attempt follows on the heels of SpaceX's successful Falcon 9 rocket landing on a land-based pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on December 21, which was considered an important milestone in the space industry and a big step toward making rockets

Watch: SpaceX rocket fails to land on drone ship, topples over and explodes - IBNLive

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[Sarkar]

It's bound to happen as cheap word doesn't exists in American Dictionary :lol

 

[Optimus_Prime]

is this about SES-9 ?

 

[Sarkar]

is this about SES-9 ?

Yes and no

Yes bcoz it is the same rocket which will carry SES-9. No bcoz Rocket has successfully launched Jason-3 ocean-measuring satellite into the orbit not SES-9.

Now the bad news is that as the rocket has failed to land back on earth successfully which is the primary aim of this project so it will require more time to investigate the issue and correct it. That means launch of further sats may be delayed :k