SpaceX rocket Falcon received maximum damage

SpaceX rocket Falcon received maximum damage

The SpaceX rocket Falcon, which landed on a floating platform in the ocean after it launched a communications satellite into orbit, was seriously damaged due to its extremely high speed, says company founder and CEO Elon Musk.

On May 6, the mission successfully brought a huge TV broadcast satellite into orbit about 22,000 miles above Earth. The space station’s flight altitude is about 250 miles.

The additional speed required to send a satellite meant an additional load that was 5 times greater than the previous rocket.

"The latest rocket received maximum damage due to (very) high speed," a post posted on Twitter reported.

After the first stage of the rocket is separated from the second one 2.5 minutes after the launch, the rocket accelerates to 5220 miles per hour, which is about 1, 5 miles per second. When it reaches a height of 76 miles above the surface of the Earth, the rocket enters the atmosphere at a speed of 5.6 maha. After going another half mile, the rocket ignites three of the nine engines to slow down from 441 miles per hour to 134 miles per hour in three seconds.

Thanks to one engine running, the rocket, at a speed of 2.5 miles per hour, lands itself on a floating platform in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

The burnt booster will probably not fly again.

"Instead, it will be our main test equipment for ground testing," Musk writes on Twitter.

The first booster that landed intact will be on display at Hawthorne headquarters in California. This rocket landed on a landing site on the ground at the Air Force station Caness Canal in December.

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