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Not so long ago we wrote that the American private company Blue Origin “managed to make the first successful landing in history reusable space rocket use.
Then we also reported that SpaceX is another aerospace a company from the USA – was in a rather disadvantageous position, since its director, Elon Musk, has repeatedly stated that he will succeed the first to land unscathed reusable rocket. Nonetheless, despite the fact that “SpaceX” did not take the honorable first in this race place, she quickly got the second. On the night of December 23 Musk finally realized his plan.
Victory was not easy
The first stage of the Falcon 9 booster rocket went up into space, then she managed to separate from the second stage and commit Managed return to a landing site in Florida. Many experts have already stated that these two historical flights marked the beginning of a new space age, promising humanity low-cost orbital flights, which the chapter has long insisted “SpaceX”.
In total, the company Ilona Mask made three attempts to plant “Falcon 9” on an autonomous barge – the first two, as easy guess were unsuccessful. One rocket landed on too high speed and as a result of this blow exploded, another overturned, breaking both “legs”. Third Attempt Yesterday, ended with a definite success. Engineers “SpaceX” claim that the landing of the reusable launch vehicle has passed “even too smooth. ”
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According to Elon Musk himself, he did not count on success, however I really hoped that this time the rocket would land as follows. “From the moment I created my company, it’s been already thirteen years. We have had many successful missions and trials, and this is undoubtedly one of our most important achievements. I think people are very happy. After all, the era of cheap space is approaching transportations, ”the entrepreneur shared with reporters.
On a touchdown broadcast that began two hours after sunset, a glowing pillar soared into the sky. When the smoke at the start site dispersed, the booster was already standing on a barge off the coast Florida. A few minutes before it flew into space to a height of the order two hundred kilometers the first stage of a rocket using guides internal combustion engines on nitrogen. Then “Falcon 9” sharply turned around, formed an inverse ballistic arc, entered again into the Earth’s atmosphere and under the glee of the launch participants gently landed on the launch pad using jet engine.
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This is the future of the space industry.
It is worth noting that the company “SpaceX”, closely cooperating with American National Space Agency, seeks to the present moment to make NASA independent of Russian rockets transporting all astronauts of the Earth to International Space Station. When the United States began introduce sanctions against Russia, our officialsb threatened Americans stop delivering their astronauts to the ISS. Russian statesman Dmitry Rogozin even stated that the United States will have to use trampolines for these purposes. As seen Americans didn’t really like this prospect, so they decided to find a way to transport people on their own international station.
Reusable launch vehicles, without a doubt, are the future of the space industry. According to Mask, he spent on construction of a new generation of Falcon 9 sixty million dollars, and the fuel cost him only ten thousand. Businessman sure if reusable launch vehicles will be brought to crazy, the cost of space travel can be reduced to tens, and even a hundred times.
Now “SpaceX” intends to repair the missile stage with least cost, then re-run it. Space NASA’s shuttles are also known to be reusable, however, they require a whole army of specialists who repair them. Ilon Musk intends to demonstrate to the world that now it can be done inexpensively and efficiently, with the efforts of one private company. At this is NASA’s American space agency, as recently known, plans to take a step back in this area by going over again on disposable launch vehicles. So the future of the world the space industry is likely to be owned by private enterprises, which, by the way, should appear in the foreseeable future in Russian space market.
“Welcome to our club,” wrote Mask on a social network. “Twitter” Blue Origin director Jeff Bezos. Nonetheless, it should be noted that the successful flight “Falcon 9” has become much more significant compared to the recent achievement of competing company. The rocket didn’t just go up and then fall on launch pad – it flew hundreds of kilometers from the coast Florida, then returning back and very carefully landing on a flat-bottomed ship.
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