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So close, and yet so far: after successfully launching the Jason-3 satellite into orbit on Sunday, the SpaceX Falcon 9 main stage rocket nearly landed on the floating Just Read The Instructions barge.
Skycure says that this is the longest it has ever taken for Apple to fix an issue they have reported to the company, but that the fix was much more complicated than it would be for a typical bug.
But, SpaceX, the company led by internet and business magnate Elon Musk, said after the landing on Monday morning (AEST) that it was disappointed because it wanted to reuse the parts to enable more sustainable and cheaper spaceflights in the future.
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Yesterday’s landing attempt by the Falcon 9 rocket was nearly successful, the rocket actually landed on the droneship, unfortunately it fell over and then exploded, this can be seen in the video below.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, tweeted that while the touchdown speed of the rocket was okay, there was an issue with one of the landing legs which caused the rocket to tip over after landing.
As the New York Times reported, the men’s exit from Iran on a Swiss government private jet was delayed for several hours as officials detained the wife and mother of reporter Rezaian without explanation.
“Unfortunately we are not standing upright on the droneship at the moment”, SpaceX lead mechanical design engineer John Federspiel said after Falcon 9 failed to land properly on Sunday.
SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk, an investor who also owns Tesla Motors, took to Twitter to explain, saying that the rocket landed successfully but one of the legs failed to fully lock and collapsed on impact. A couple minutes later SpaceX announced that the landing failed...
Jason Rezaian, the American journalist released by Iran on Saturday, has made his first public appearance today outside a medical center in Germany where he is being treated before returning to the U.S.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the U.S.-European Jason-3 satellite launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 4 East on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016.