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Space X rocket destroyed after successful EU satellite launch
Robert Hackwill

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EUROPE -- Space X’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket has successfully put a European satellite into orbit, but what launch engineers described as a “hard landing” meant the private company’s latest mission was only a qualified success.

A faulty landing leg meant the Falcon 9 was totally destroyed when the first stage toppled over on the floating Pacific landing platform and blew up.

It is a setback for company founder Elon Musk’s ambition to operate a safe, cheap, reusable rocket system.

The latest flight had begun so well with a faultless liftoff from Space X’s California launchpad. Only last December the company pulled off a world first by bringing a Falcon 9 back to earth safely with a ground landing in Florida, but this time for as yet unexplained reasons disaster struck.

Source: http://www.euronews.com/2016/01/18/space-x-rocket-destroyed-after-successful-eu-satellite-launch/

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Can anyone explain in simple words what is all mess about SpaceX. The specs looks worse then spaceships developed on late 60th last century.

Maybe as big a mess as your post ;)

Private space enterprises are not cheap and are the realm of THE most dedicated type of entrepreneur. They are launching and recovering. How good is that? Give them a trillion like NASA and I bet they would get some pretty cool results.

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