SpaceX conducted successful launch of Falcon 9 and landing its first stage – RBC

the Launch of the carrier rocket Falcon 9. January 14, 2016

Photo by: Matt Hartman via AP

the First stage of the rocket Falcon 9 SpaceX successfully landed on the floating platform in the Pacific ocean. The rocket has put into orbit communication satellites Iridum. This is the first crash after the September launch of the Falcon 9

the American private space company SpaceX successfully put the first stage of the rocket Falcon 9 on an unmanned platform in the Pacific ocean. This follows from the Twitter company. A live webcast was also conducted on the official website of SpaceX.

a 70-meter carrier rocket, the Falcon 9 started at 20:54 GMT from Vandenberg air force base, U.S. air force, which is located in California. After eight minutes after the start has occurred the landing of the first stage. The second stage needs to move into geostationary orbit, ten American telecommunications satellites Iridum Communications Inc.

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This is the first launch of the Falcon 9 after the accident, which occurred on 1 September 2016. Then on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida explosion of the carrier rocket, which was put into orbit a communications satellite for the Israeli Spacecom Ltd. Later SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that the explosion occurred in the Gulf rocket fuel in the oxygen tank of the upper, the second stage of the Falcon 9.

Power lost companion had to use the French operator Eutelsat and Facebook. In Eutelsat has estimated losses from loss of the satellite with €50 million