3rd SpaceX rocket lands – level 3
Billionaire Elon Musk has done it again, successfully landing this SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a platform floating in the middle of the ocean. As the rocket's descent speeds up, things started to look a bit rocky, but then out of nowhere, this happened. The Falcon 9 held firm as jets brought it to rest on the aptly named “Of course I still love you” drone ship, making this the third successful landing for SpaceX in a row.
"Lift off for the Falcon 9."
The 70-metre-tall rocket was launched Friday afternoon to deliver Thaicom 8, a telecommunications satellite. After the satellite was in orbit, it took just 9 minutes for the rocket to be safe back on Earth.
SpaceX has a backlog of more than 10 billion dollars’ worth of launch orders from customers, including NASA. If it can keep landing and reusing rockets like this one, Elon Musk is going to be having a very big Christmas bonus.
Difficult words: float (to rest on water), descent (coming down), rocky (difficult or full of problems), aptly (suitably), in a row (in succession – happening one after another), launch (to go up, to start), backlog (work that you need to do).
Summary:
Elon Musk has reached the third consecutive SpaceX rocket landing on a plataform in the ocean. In the new, they say that when the rocket was comming down, it seemed that the plan was going to have a bad ending, but at the end all runned well and the rocket landed exactly where it has to: in a drone ship called Of course I still love you (what a name to tell during the operation).
The rocket took three days to deliever the satellite Thaicom 8 into it's orbit, but it took just nine minutes to be safe on earth, over the ship that stills loving him.
If Elon Musk keeps saving rockets like this, he will won a lot of money, because a rocket r very, very, very expensive, it costs more than 10 billoin dollars.
My opinion:
If Elon Musk reaches the objective of "save rockets", that would be a good news for the world of whom who work in satellites, comunication, space-observation... Because the price of every rocket launch could be fewer. Nowadays, a lauching of a rocket like the rocket of this news costro 8 million dollars at least, if the satellite is small. With the improvement of Musk, more contries would be able to put satellites in orbit and the technology would improve in general in this area. I hope he reaches his objectives!
