After a run of successfulbarge landing , yesterday ’s SpaceX landing place attempt regrettably ended in a lump of fire as the Falcon 9 skyrocket landed ill on the autonomous lighter .
The company , own by Elon Musk , made a point to bring up how unmanageable this attempt would be . The mission was to take satellites to geostationary orbit , which required the Falcon 9 rocket to hit a higher altitude . This think that the booster rocket re - inscribe the atmosphere at a high speed and with less fuel to slow down .
The launch and landing place were streamed live , but when the rocket hit the barge , the shock from the touchdown was strong enough to shake the gravy holder and cut the live feed . The last images show a stand rocket with flames at the bottom .
“ Unfortunately , it come along that we have lost the vehicle , ” said Kate Tice during thewebcast , a process advance engineer for SpaceX. “ We received a mess of really undecomposed data from this , and as always these are experimental attempts . ”
On Twitter , Musk confirmed that the rocket was lost , saying it experienced RUD on re - entree . RUD stands for Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly , which is the proficient term for break down ka - manna from heaven .
In a follow - up tweet , Musk explain that one of the three engines was not operating at full capacity , and that caused the rocket to strike the barge too fast . The hoy , named after sci - fi starship " Of Course I Still bang You , " was n’t damage . A video of the neglect landing will be released at a later time .
The company is already working on a solution , which Musk believes will besorted out by the close of the class .
A sheer endeavour can be considered a half - success , so this mishap wo n’t discourage SpaceX ’s goal of ingest an entire fleet of reusable rocket salad . So far , they have had four successful landings , one on land and three on water , and they are plan to re - use one of those rockets shortly .
The shaken and at times icy feed from the dawdler hoy as the Falcon 9 roquette landed . SpaceX via Youtube
