The SpaceX Reusable Rocket Story …
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3 min readApr 17, 2015
The Long Road to Landing Rockets
The Landing … (on DroneShip) Apr 8, 2016
The Landing…(on Land) Dec 21,2015
The reflight/reuse of an orbital rocket (Mar 30, 2017)
The Story…
Imagination/Vision:
The Plan:
Tests:
Aug 13, 2013
Field Trails:
July 14, 2014
Jan 10, 2015
April 15, 2015
June 28, 2015
Dec 12, 2015 — Success (on Land)(Landed the SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral)
‘Welcome back baby’ — Elon Musk
Jan 1, 2016 — Lands on DroneShip but falls
Apr 8th 2016 — Lands on DroneShip — Success
Others in the game…
2010: The Armadillo folks
April 2015: United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s Vulcan rocket plans also have a reusable rocket concept…
Nov 24 2015 : The claim by Jeff Bezos “ rarest of beasts — a used rocket”
The Wikipedia Truth
Comparison
June 21, 2004
SpaceShipOne — The 1st suborbital Commerical rocket
Good links
- Why does SpaceX use vertical landing rather than horizontal landing?
- Elon Musk on Rockets