SpaceX Launches Satellites, Narrowly Misses Rocket Landing at Sea
#rapid_unscheduled_disassembly
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SpaceX successfully launched two satellites to orbit today (June 15) but couldn’t quite pull off its fourth consecutive rocket landing at sea in the process.
The first stage of the California-based company’s Falcon 9 rocket Falcon 9 rocket managed to hit its target — a robotic “droneship” stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, a few hundred miles off the Florida coast — but wasn’t able to stick the landing.
“Ascent phase & satellites look good, but booster rocket had a RUD on droneship,” SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter during the liftoff. ("RUD" is #Muskspeak for “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”)