Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX, shared a remarkable video from last week’s Falcon 9-based COSMO-SkyMed mission.
SpaceX, last week”COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2A successful take-off would take place within the scope of the mission. For those who don’t know this mission, it was made for the Italian Space Agency and went into low earth orbit with the Falcon 9 rocket. COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 satellite removed. For this task, the company shared a video clip on Twitter and this video made a lot of noise. Now this is taken from the land with a special tracking system. The whole video has been shared.. The video, which you can watch directly above, clearly reveals Falcon 9’s first and second division separation. This event takes place at the 30th second of the video.
The first section, which raises the second section carrying the satellite to a certain height, turns back after the maneuver and lands vertically on land. Thanks to these landings, the first parts of the Falcon 9 rockets can be used in many different missions. In this way, SpaceX can make space much cheaper.
The only space you see in the video is suitable for the conditions. Merlin engine The second segment, which has a second part, carries its payload towards low earth orbit. After the 4th minute of the video, the covers in front of the second part are opened and the transported satellite is exposed. It does not appear in the video, but after a while the satellite leaves the second part and settles into its own orbit.
SpaceX is yet to recover the second partition for reuse. This part is reportedly returning to the atmosphere and burning down to become unusable. The protective covers in front of the second part can be recovered in some missions.
SpaceX for this Mr. steven He has a ship with a large catch net called. It is among the details that are conveyed from time to time that the company was able to recover from million-dollar hatches with this ship. CEO from this latest video Elon Musk He was also very impressed and the famous CEO tweeted about the subject: had written:
“A 16-storey long rocket, which moves several times faster than a bullet, fires its engines and reverses to return to the launch site.”