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SpaceX Reusable Rocket Test Returns Booster to Earth, then 'Kaboom'
"The commercial spaceflight company SpaceX returned part of its Falcon 9
rocket back to Earth after a successful satellite launch Monday (July 14) in a reusability test that did not go entirely as planned after the booster splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. "Rocket booster reentry, landing burn & leg deploy were good, but lost hull integrity right after splashdown (aka kaboom)," SpaceX's billionaire founder and CEO Elon Musk wrote in a Twitter post. "Detailed review of rocket telemetry needed to tell if [it was] due to initial splashdown or subsequent tip over and body slam."" See: http://news.yahoo.com/spacex-reusabl...100154410.html |
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