Elon Musk’s last rocket announced to lunch on Thursday, December 19. The rocket that will launch is slightly %30 percent more powerful than the previous rocket that exploded 2 minutes after the launch in late June. The rocket will carry satellites from Orbcomm ( a U.S. Company ) into Earth orbit. The new rocket also designed to land vertically, that is the most important feature of this rocket and if Elon Musk wants to SpaceX have a future. This launch and landing should do perfectly.
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People from SpaceX totally focused on this lunch, after Blue Origin successful launch and perfect vertical landing makes all eyes turned on the SpaceX, after all, they are the first commercial company made a $1.6 billion agreement with NASA to carry cargos and astronauts to the ISS.
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TECHNICAL OVERVIEW OF THE ROCKET FALCON 9
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HEIGHT:70m / 229.6 ft
MASS: 541,300kg / 1,194,000 lb
PAYLOAD TO LEO: 13,150kg / 28,991 lb
DIAMETER: 3.7m / 12 ft
PAYLOAD TO GTO: 4,850kg / 10,692 lb