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SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket for the First Time

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 22 2015, @02:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the way-to-go! dept.

Falcon 9 Stage 1 successful landing

e_armadillo writes:

I just watched the live stream at http://www.spacex.com/, and they did it! Elon is the man!

SpaceX Succeeds in Landing Booster

J053 writes:

SpaceX has successfully launched their upgraded Falcon-9 rocket, returned and successfully landed the booster stage (on land!), and deployed a constellation of 11 Orbcomm satellites.

SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket for the First Time

martyb writes:

Wired is reporting that SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket for the First Time:

They stuck the landing! For the first time ever, SpaceX has landed a booster after sending its payload into orbit—on the ground.

Over the past year, SpaceX has tried and failed to land the first-stage booster of its Falcon 9 rocket twice on a drone barge in the ocean. (And on its third try, the rocket blew up on launch, which, yeah.) This time, SpaceX managed to land its rocket on a landing pad on Cape Canaveral, Florida. Being able to reuse the booster could help cut launch costs in the future.

Also, SpaceX's YouTube channel posted a 56-minute video: "ORBCOMM-2 Full Launch Webcast by SpaceX".

SpaceX Stage 1 Booster Landed Successfully

el_oscuro writes:

Elon Musk's SpaceX not only blasted 11 satellites to orbit on Monday, but also brought its towering first-stage booster back down, with a historic landing at a pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

It was the company's first launch since its rocket carrying cargo to the International Space Station exploded on June 28.

The full video is available http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-return-to-flight-20151221-story.html

The launch is at about 32 minutes in, and the booster lands at about 42 minutes.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday December 22 2015, @03:38AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday December 22 2015, @03:38AM (#279561) Journal

    Elon Musk > Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs gave us fancy surveillance slabs. Elon Musk is giving us electric cars, reusable rockets, solar homes, Hyperloop.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 22 2015, @04:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 22 2015, @04:31AM (#279588)

    congratulations elon

    no wait... aren't engineers supposed to be terrorists!?

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 22 2015, @05:45AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 22 2015, @05:45AM (#279614) Journal

      It takes time to become a successful terrorist. Those damned Martians are quaking in fear, as they watch Elon's preparations for attacking Mars.

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      • (Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Tuesday December 22 2015, @07:24AM

        by e_armadillo (3695) on Tuesday December 22 2015, @07:24AM (#279646)

        Well, the Martian residents near the polar ice caps better be worried, anyway!

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Tuesday December 22 2015, @06:08AM

      by DECbot (832) on Tuesday December 22 2015, @06:08AM (#279626) Journal

      Hold on.... Let me check the meme table in the Engineering's Handbook....
      Ah!
      Here it is. Engineer.... by terrorist.... Hmm... Okay

      Any engineering activity preformed by persons with a skin tone darker than 4 on the Tambian skin tone chart without government license and oversight by a manager of a skin tone value of 3. Violations are referenced as "engineering while brown."

      Computer engineering, programming, coding, exploration, or research performed by individuals of any skin tone color as defined by the Tambian skin tone chart while not on payroll of a domestic government position, fortune 500 company, government subcontractor, or government vendor. Exceptions are made for web designers that primarily use Apple devices and Adobe products.

      ....aaaaaannd its time to buy a Mac and bleach my skin.... Can't be too careful. Is coldfusion still in vogue?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 22 2015, @05:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 22 2015, @05:09AM (#279600)

    GROUPTHINK FUCK YEAH!

    Btw, Mr. Musk is from South Africa, and half of SpaceX came from around the world.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 22 2015, @09:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 22 2015, @09:53PM (#279947)

    Well, Musk better not get too popular too fast because you guys will drop him like yesterday's news because it won't be cool to like him anymore (too "mainstream"). Just like what happened to Jobs...