Monday, 18 January 2016

SpaceX fails in third attempt to stick landing on its drone barge

SpaceX fails in third attempt to stick landing on its drone barge

SpaceX's third attempt to land one of its rockets on an autonomous landing pad barge at sea on Sunday did not go as hoped once again. The first two attempts at this experimental landing ended with fantastic explosions as the Falcon 9 rocket failed to stick the landing just right. Sunday's mission successfully deployed the Jason-3 satellite, which will measure global sea levels, to a polar orbit (meaning it will circle the Earth from north to south instead of traveling...

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