Feb 10, 2015 02:47 AM
(This post was last modified: Feb 10, 2015 02:49 AM by Yazata.)
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.
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.