SpaceX Makes The 300th Landing Of The First Stage Of Falcon 9 Rocket
Elon Musk, the serial tech entrepreneur behind SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, recently celebrated the 300th landing of the SpaceX Falcon 9. The Falcon 9 is a reusable rocket designed to carry people and payloads to Earth’s orbit and beyond.
The Falcon 9 rocket with 22 Starlink vehicles on board took off from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida on June 7 at 21:56 local time. Less than 9 minutes after launch, the first stage of the launch vehicle made a soft landing on a special floating platform A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.
“Falcon 9 lands for the 300th time,” SpaceX wrote on its social media account X shortly after the mission ended. According to available data, this was the 16th launch for the Falcon 9 first stage used. We also note that in 12 previous missions it was used to launch Starlink vehicles into orbit.
After the first stage was disconnected, the second stage of the rocket continued to move in the given direction and approximately 53 minutes after launch, all 22 satellites were successfully deployed into orbit.
Musk’s ultimate goal within SpaceX is to send a human mission to Mars and establish a self-sustaining colony there, turning humanity into a multiplanetary species. In a recent interview, Musk said he expects humans to land on Mars within the next seven or eight years.
