SpaceX successfully landed the Falcon 9 boosters at sea

Noon 6/5 (Hanoi time), Falcon 9 boosters, SpaceX Space Exploration Technology (USA), successfully landed on the platform to welcome the Atlantic, after completing the mission of launching a telecommunications satellite into orbit.

This landing was the second time in a month through SpaceX's Falcon 9 missile successfully landing at sea.

According to SpaceX's announcement, the Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 1:21 am 6/5 (local time), ie 12: 21 noon 6/5 (Hanoi time), from Mui Canaveral air base, Florida state, USA. After 2.5 minutes since leaving the launch pad, the first floor of Falcon 9 had split off and landed on the pedestal on an unmanned ship off Florida.

Falcon 9. rocket boosters (Source: EPA / VNA).

During this test, the missile was launched at twice the speed of the previous test a month, so it could carry a broadcasting satellite weighing up to 4,700kg into a trajectory. Earth more than 32,600km.

Satellite JCSAT-14 of SKY Perfect Technology JCSAT of Japan, designed to provide mobile TV, data and telecommunications information services to customers in Asia, Russia .

This marine landing of the Falcon 9 marks the next success of California state-owned SapceX technology, in its reuse missile test, to help save costs.

Previously, on April 9, after four failures, SpaceX had for the first time successfully landed Falcon 9 on the sea after fulfilling the mission of supplying food and other necessary items to the scientists. study on ISS.

In December 2015, SpaceX also succeeded in landing missiles on the pedestal after putting satellites into space, but that was the ground landing at Cape Canaveral base. The last time in early March, SpaceX also tested the ability to land on the sea but failed due to a series of engine incidents, which made it impossible for missiles to land on the Atlantic Ocean.

SpaceX was founded in 2002, owned by Internet billionaire Elon Musk. SpaceX's successful May 2012 test flight marked the first time a spacecraft of a private group approached ISS.