SpaceX successfully lands its rocket on a floating drone ship

[Locutus]

for the first time

It’s also the second time the company has pulled off a landing

SpaceX has finally landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea, after launching the vehicle into space this afternoon. It's the first time the company has been able to pull off an ocean landing, after four previous attempts ended in failure. Today's success is a crucial milestone for SpaceX, as it shows the company can land its rockets both on solid ground and ocean.

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SpaceX successfully lands its rocket on a floating drone ship for the first time | The Verge

 

[Curious Cdn]

I don't understand how something so tall, slender with a base-to-apex ratio like that doesn't fall over while landing in a pitching deck. If it were solid land, it would still be amazing but what manner of dynamic system matches a rocket body exactly in line with gravity with a platforms rocking side-to-side ten, fifteen degrees each time?

Truly amazing, if it's real.

 

[Sons of Liberty]

Impressive technology

 

[Locutus]

if it's real.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/718561436201431040

 

[Johnnny]

Good bye runways.... Contracting the freighting of cargo into space was the best thing NASA could have done..More money to focus more on research like their soon to be planned probe to one of the ice giants.