SpaceX has a short video released in which it shows how the Falcon 9 rocket on his zeeplatform landed. The rocket was Saturday launched the Dragon capsule to the ISS, and then came with a hard bang back to earth.
Elon Musk said that the landing of the Falcon 9 rocket, which on a supposedly autonomous ‘droneship in the atlantic ocean had countries, not all went well. A short video on Vine is uploaded, it is now to see what the SpaceX ceo that exactly meant.
The video shows that the rocket on the platform redundant, but that this is done under an angle of about 45 degrees. This is the landing eventually a crash. ‘Close, but no cigar’, in the words of Musk. Despite the blow is SpaceX optimistic about the future of its reusable rocket.