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SpaceX Plans Recoverable Booster Test Tomorrow - Yazata - Feb 10, 2015
SpaceX intends to make their second attempt tomorrow to recover a Falcon 9 satellite booster by landing it vertically (1950's Science-fiction-style) on rocket thrust on a barge out in the Atlantic 200 miles east of Cape Canaveral.
The first attempt several weeks ago succeeded in locating the barge, calculating a trajectory to it and decelerating from hypersonic velocity, but failed in controlling its attitude on approach, coming in at about a 45 degree angle to the vertical and exploded on impact.
RE: SpaceX Plans Recoverable Booster Test Tomorrow - Yazata - Feb 11, 2015
Rescheduled to Wednesday due to high altitude winds.
RE: SpaceX Plans Recoverable Booster Test Tomorrow - Yazata - Feb 13, 2015
Didn't happen. They successfully launched the satellite that they were contracted to launch, but didn't attempt the recovery of the booster due to high ocean waves at the recovery site.