Footage Of SpaceX's Rocket Landing Footage Is Always Refreshing: Watch

December 09, 2022 By Monica Green

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SpaceX initially achieved the extraordinary accomplishment of landing its 70-foot-tall, first-stage Falcon 9 booster in December 2015. Since then, it’s perfected the landing procedure, whether it takes place on land or on a barge stationed out in the ocean. SpaceX can reuse the boosters thanks to the landings for numerous orbital missions, resulting in a quicker launch cycle and much lower flight costs. It's amazing to see one of SpaceX's boosters coming in for a landing, with its engines screaming back to life to steady itself and its landing legs deploying for an ideal touchdown - upright. Following a mission to launch 40 internet satellites for the UK-based OneWeb, SpaceX revealed some stunning video of its most recent landing on Thursday (see below). 150 seconds after liftoff from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the first stage of the Falcon 9 separated at a height of nearly 50 miles. After leaving the airport, the booster made a flawless touchdown back at Kennedy 7 minutes and 50 seconds later. [caption id="attachment_70200" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Rocket Landing Footage

SPACEX[/caption] Check out the footage as the camera tracks the booster on its approach to the landing spot. This same booster has already taken flight on the CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, and one Starlink flight, among other missions. It will be examined by SpaceX, updated, and prepared for a subsequent flight. The Falcon 9 landing took SpaceX engineers years to perfect, just like any new space technology. Many of the early attempts were unsuccessful because the booster either came down too hard or toppled over just after landing. But each failure supplied the team with new data to work with, enabling it to eventually perfect the method.

Falcon 9's first stage has landed pic.twitter.com/0JxddJt5Sd
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 8, 2022

Now the focus is on SpaceX's next-generation Super Heavy rocket, which consists of the second-stage Starship spacecraft and the first-stage Super Heavy booster. The rocket is poised for its first orbital test flight in the coming months and will become the most powerful space vehicle ever to fly when it takes to the skies. The powerful Super Heavy will launch spacecraft to the moon and maybe beyond, whereas the Falcon 9 is designed for low-Earth orbital missions. The initial orbital test mission won’t attempt to land the Super Heavy’s first stage, though SpaceX stated that it eventually wants to do so.

By Monica Green

I am specialised in latest tech and tech discoveries.

Footage Of SpaceX's Rocket Landing Footage Is Always Refreshing: Watch

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