The American company SpaceX is again managed to recover on Sunday some of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle on an offshore platform, after the successful launch of a Japanese communications satellite.
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The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1:26 (5:26 GMT), with a mission to place Japanese telecommunications satellite JCSAT-16 into geostationary transfer orbit. It should improve the distribution services of video and data transfers in Asia, Russia, Oceania, Middle East and North America.
Once the mission was accomplished, the first stage of the rocket landed smoothly on a drone-ship named “Of Course I Still Love You”.
This is the sixth time that the California company founded and run by billionaire Elon Musk, manages this delicate maneuver, and the fourth on a floating barge in the Atlantic Ocean.
Get the launcher for reuse and lower costs
SpaceX hopes to, by regularly collecting the first floor of Falcon 9, reuse. This should significantly reduce launch costs and potentially upset the sector of orbiting satellites and access to space in general. Elon Musk had said in April that fuel the rocket cost 300,000 dollars and the cost of production of $ 60 million pitcher.
So far the first floor of the launchers were destroyed by returning to high speed into the atmosphere.
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