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Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket lands back at Cape Canaveral after delivering supplies to the International Space Station

2017-02-21

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] New video shows the moment Falcon 9 rocket landed at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida

The rocket blasted off at 9:38am Sunday and touched down at the space center that day

It returned after making its payload to the astronauts on the International Space Station

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk captioned the video of the return on Instagram: 'Baby came back'

The launch pad, which is being leased by SpaceX for six years, was used to send Neil Armstrong to the moon

SpaceX wanted to send the rocket - packed with supplies for the space station - Saturday but there was a fault

The reusable rocket has only been landed on solid ground by SpaceX three times before

This was the first launch for the company from Florida since September, when another Falcon 9 exploded

Posted by:Fred

#6 Neat. Thanks.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-02-21 17:27

#5 NET February 28 March 1 - Echostar 23 - Falcon 9-032 - Kennedy LC-39A - 05:27-07:57
March 1 - NROL-79: Intruder 8A (NOSS 3-8A), Intruder 8B (NOSS 3-8B) (TBD) - Atlas V 401 (AV-068) - Vandenberg SLC-3E
March 8 - WGS-9 - Delta IV-M+(5,4) - Canaveral SLC-37B - 23:48-00:53
NET mid-March - SES-10 - Falcon 9 (with reused 1st stage) - Kennedy LC-39A
March 20 - Cygnus OA-7 (CRS-7) - Atlas V 401 (AV-070) - Canaveral SLC-41 - 02:56-03:26
NET late March - NROL-76 - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A (or 2018)
NET April 9 - Dragon SpX-11 (CRS-11), ROSA, MUSES, NICER - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A
NET April 2nd quarter - Intelsat 35e - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A Canaveral SLC-40 (TBD)
2nd quarter - SES-11 (EchoStar 105) - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A/Canaveral SLC-40 (TBD)
2nd quarter - Inmarsat 5 F4 - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A/Canaveral SLC-40
NET 2nd quarter - BulgariaSat 1 - Falcon 9 - Canaveral SLC-40 (TBD)
NET May - SkySat-Gen2 6, SkySat-Gen2 7, SkySat-Gen2 8, SkySat-Gen2 9, SkySat-Gen2 10, SkySat-Gen2 11, CPOD A, CPOD B, MinXSS 2, RANGE A, RANGE B, COPPER 2 - Minotaur-C XL (3210) - Vandenberg SLC-576E
NET May - Demo Flight (dummy payload, ballast) - Falcon Heavy - Kennedy LC-39A (or midyear)
June 13 - NROL-42: Trumpet Follow On 2 (TBD) - Atlas V 541 (AV-072) - Vandenberg SLC-3E
June 15 - ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer) [Helio EX-1] - Pegasus XL - Kwajalein, L-1011 "Stargazer"
April mid-June - Iridium Next Flight 2 (x10) - Falcon 9 - Vandenberg SLC-4E
June 22 - AEHF-4 - Atlas V 531 (AV-074) - Canaveral SLC-41

Posted by: 3dc 2017-02-21 01:49

#4 Next SpaceX/Musk launch is Echostar 23 which will be expendable (no landing) as the sat is quite large.

After Echostar 23 comes SES-10 which will be riding on the first reused first stage! Hopefully this flight will be mid-March but delivery times and Musk have quite often been wishful thinking.

Posted by: 3dc 2017-02-21 01:42

#3 H5 is the big Japanese space freighter.
Next gen will be a bigger Cygnus, Dragon2 (both cargo and human versions), DreamChaser(cargo version), Boeing Starliner and the H5 and Dragons will continue for awhile.

Posted by: 3dc 2017-02-21 01:38

#2 Only the first stage has landed. The payload Dragon is on it's way to ISS.
There is this whole "go slow and carefully approach according to script" dance that is done to be grappled (not docked) with ISS. Docking is too much of a shock for many experiments on the ISS and is only used for manned and Russian craft. H5, Cygnus and Dragon are pulled in by remote arm. EU craft might dock but no more EU craft are planned.

Posted by: 3dc 2017-02-21 01:33

#1 The second stage maneuvers after seco caused UFO sightings all over IRAN! Some of the UFO vids even capture the Dragon separating from the second stage.

Posted by: 3dc 2017-02-21 01:28

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