Elon Musk spacex rocket landing
Spacex火箭著陸 第5週
Who:The epic rocket
When:April 8
Where:Not given
Where:Not given
Why:Humanity's march out into the cosmos
How:Landing SpaceX
How:Landing SpaceX
The epic rocket landing SpaceX pulled off today (April 8) is a big step forward in humanity's march out into the cosmos, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said.
SpaceX managed to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a robotic "drone ship" in the Atlantic Ocean during the successful launch of the company's uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this afternoon.
The first-of-its-kind touchdown is an important milestone in SpaceX's quest to develop completely reusable rockets, which Musk has said could revolutionize spaceflight by reducing launch costs by a factor of 100.
"I think it's another step toward the stars," Musk said during a post-launch press briefing today. "In order for us to really open up access to space, we've got to achieve full and rapid reusability. And to be able to do that for the primary rocket booster is going to [have] a huge impact on cost."
SpaceX has landed a Falcon 9 first stage once before, bringing the booster back on dry land at Cape Canaveral during a satellite launch this past December. But today's touchdown was the first successful drone-ship landing after four near-misses; similar attempts in January 2015, April 2015, January 2016 and March 2016 ended with the rocket hitting the drone ship but then toppling over and exploding on its deck.
"The rocket landed instead of putting a hole in the ship or tipping over, so we're really excited about that," Musk said today.
SpaceX would ideally like to land all of its rockets on terra firma, because doing so streamlines the testing and reflight processes significantly. But boosters on certain missions cannot carry enough fuel to make it all the way back to land, so it's important to be proficient at ocean landings as well, Musk said.
Key words:
cosmos:宇宙
uncrewed:鬆開
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station:卡納維拉爾角空軍基地
milestone:里程碑
spaceflight:宇宙飛航
terra firma:穩固地基
streamlines:流線
uncrewed:鬆開
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station:卡納維拉爾角空軍基地
milestone:里程碑
spaceflight:宇宙飛航
terra firma:穩固地基
streamlines:流線
Through this discovers, we may be possible to move and live in the other planet in the future. In past, only talrained astronauts could land in other planets;nowadays or in the future, people may travel there for few days. However, this trip needs a large amount of money, so most of people still hardly travel in outerspace.
回覆刪除After haveing the technology to recycle the spaceship from the universe, we will be able to have more opportunity and money to explore the unknown world outside the Earth. I hope the technology can be improved soon because I am very interested in the universe and wish to take a glimpse of it.
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