SpaceX has launched its second rocket within 5 weeks of the first launch of SpaceX. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Monday, 6th January, 2014 and successfully puts a broadcasting satellite for aThai communication operator.
The mission lasted for half an hour and it is just one month after the first launch by SpaceX into a geostationary transfer orbit. The 224-foot-tall rocket lifted off in a blaze of golden exhaust at 2206
GMT (5:06 p.m. EST), and its on-board guidance computer maneuvered the
slender white booster east from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad,
soaring over the Atlantic Ocean and through a deck of overcast clouds
less than a minute into the flight.
Cameras were mounted on the rocket. So SpaceX company webcasted the streamed video showing the smooth ascent of the rocket into the upper atmosphere before the Falcon 9 rocket shed its first stage 3 minutes after lift off. The second stage's Merlin 1D engine, fitted with an expansive nozzle optimized for firing in a vacuum, ignited to propel the Thaicom 6 spacecraft into a temporary orbit. The second stage shut down its engine and coasted across the Atlantic before restarting to boost Thaicom 6 into a targeted orbit reaching as high as 90,000 kilometers, or 55,923 miles.
SpaceX has confirmed that the launch was successful in their twitter account. The tweet says "Falcon 9 has successfully deployed Thaicom 6 into its target orbit". The launch was actually planned on 3rd January, 2014 but it was delayed due to a technical snag. The perigee of the orbit was 295 Kms or 183 miles and the inclination was 22.5 degrees at the time of deployment of the spacecraft.
The SpaceX company is planning to make the Falcon9's first stage reusable eventually guiding the spent stages back to a rocket assisted touch down on a landing pad near the launch site.
The mission lasted for half an hour and it is just one month after the first launch by SpaceX into a geostationary transfer orbit. The 224-foot-tall rocket lifted off in a blaze of golden exhaust at 2206
GMT (5:06 p.m. EST), and its on-board guidance computer maneuvered the
slender white booster east from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad,
soaring over the Atlantic Ocean and through a deck of overcast clouds
less than a minute into the flight.Cameras were mounted on the rocket. So SpaceX company webcasted the streamed video showing the smooth ascent of the rocket into the upper atmosphere before the Falcon 9 rocket shed its first stage 3 minutes after lift off. The second stage's Merlin 1D engine, fitted with an expansive nozzle optimized for firing in a vacuum, ignited to propel the Thaicom 6 spacecraft into a temporary orbit. The second stage shut down its engine and coasted across the Atlantic before restarting to boost Thaicom 6 into a targeted orbit reaching as high as 90,000 kilometers, or 55,923 miles.
SpaceX has confirmed that the launch was successful in their twitter account. The tweet says "Falcon 9 has successfully deployed Thaicom 6 into its target orbit". The launch was actually planned on 3rd January, 2014 but it was delayed due to a technical snag. The perigee of the orbit was 295 Kms or 183 miles and the inclination was 22.5 degrees at the time of deployment of the spacecraft.
The SpaceX company is planning to make the Falcon9's first stage reusable eventually guiding the spent stages back to a rocket assisted touch down on a landing pad near the launch site.
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