Elon Musk's SpaceX recovers Falcon 9 rocket fairing from space with a giant net; watch

Elon Musk’s private Aero company X was able to successfully catch its Falcon 9 rocket head in centre of Atlantic ocean using a large stretched out net which was laid out on top of a moving ship. rocket was equipped with a big parachute which was used to slow landing. Elon Musk also shared a short video of landing on his Twitter handle after successful Starlink launch mission which took place earlier this week.

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X recovers Falcon 9 rocket

Falcon 9 rocket was launched by X as part of company's eleventh Starlink mission on Tuesday, August 18, at 10:31 AM EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Falcon 9 rocket carried 58 new Starlink satellites into Earth's orbit along with three SkySats from Planet Labs.

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It is worth ting that se rocket fairings cost a fairly decent amount of money. However, y are t generally recovered after y are launched into . As reported by Wired, Falcon 9 rocket can cost approximately $6 million, which is clearly a huge amount. However, ability to reuse se rockets certainly makes launch operations much more affordable and accessible to companies.  launch mission was using  Falcon 9 first-st booster which had been used for sixth time.

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X was able to successfully recover its rocket for third time in a month which is a major feat for Aero company. As for Starlink project, company had already launched a total of 597 Starlink broadband satellites into as of August 7, 2020, before latest batch of 58 new satellites.

 internet-from- initiative appears to be progressing well before final beta launch in parts of US and Canada. constellation project aims to provide low-cost internet service to users.  company has also started inviting people interested in service to fill out an online form to receive updates on latest Starlink news and availability of beta test in ir respective areas.

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