The Falcon 9 that was used for the launch was previously involved in a resupply mission to the International Space Station in February.Tuesday's launch marked SpaceX's 15th launch of 2017, and was the second one this week. The portion of the rocket that lands on the droneship is called the booster. It's the third time that SpaceX has used one of its landed boosters for another flight.This will give a lift to the company which is on a mission to make journeys to space cheaper and more frequent by reusing rockets.Earlier this year, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell told Reuters in an interview that the company was aiming to launch missions every two-to-three weeks.But Musk and SpaceX also have bigger ambitions to take people to Mars. The tech entrepreneur has previously to build a self-sustaining human colony on Mars. Last year, Musk laid out his plan to build a 42-engine rocket capable of holding around 100 people.
Mar 15, 2020 The Falcon 9 was to carry 60 Starlink satellites into space. The launch would have been the sixth this year for Elon Musk’s rocket company, and the fifth return of the reusable booster into flight. Original Story: As the rest of the world slowly grinds to a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic, the US launch industry is still sending rockets into space, with another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set.
The NEXUS reusable rocket was a concept design created in the 1960s by a group at General Dynamics led by Krafft Arnold Ehricke. It was intended as the next leap beyond the Saturn V, carrying up to eight times more payload. Several versions were designed, including 12,000 and 24,000 short ton vehicles with payloads of one thousand and two thousand short tons respectively.[1] The larger version had a diameter of 202 feet (61.5 metres).[1][2] It was never built.
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