About 10 minutes after LiftOff posted a video on its Twitter feed, SpaceX tweeted that the first phase of the rocket booster landed on its Just, Reed Instructions, located in the Atlantic Ocean.
The booster detaches after climbing and maneuvers the flip, allowing it to use its engine and the “grid fins” to lead themselves to a soft landing on the droneship.
The reusable booster has been retrieved seven times, SpaceX said.
Sunday’s recovery recovery marks the 69th time the company has recovered the Falcon 9 first-stage booster, he said.
Shortly after 1 p.m., SpaceX tweeted that the rocket’s latest payload, the SXM-7 satellite for SiriusXM, had been successfully deployed.
On Wednesday, the starship S.N. 8, took off from South Texas, bouncing over the Gulf of Mexico before diving back to the launch site, where it crashed to the ground and exploded.
“The low pressure in the fuel header tank during the landing burn resulted in a touch touchdown momentum that resulted in a hard (and exciting!) Landing,” SpaceX said in a statement.
SpaceX asked for data on how it could re-enter Earth’s atmosphere after returning from an extraterrestrial mission and going to a specific location on Earth. Kasturi described the mission as a success.
“Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, which increased touchdown velocity and RUD, but we got the data we needed!” He said in a tweet.
RUD stands for “Rapid Unexplained Dissociation” – a fancy way of saying “crashed.”
Jackie Wattle of CNN contributed to this report.
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