The new rocket SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 with the Bangladeshi satellite Bangabandhu-1 was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral late Friday evening. The device has successfully reached the geostationary orbit. The launch was to take place the day before, but it was canceled a minute before the start. The company did not explain why it happened. However, on Twitter Elon Musk (head of SpaceX) announced that the launch was cancelled automatically.
Three minutes after launch, there was a separation of the first stage of the carrier rocket, after six minutes, she made a vertical landing on an automated floating platform “Of Course, I Still Love You” in the Atlantic ocean.
This launch was the first for the new, fifth modification of the first stage of the rocket. As mentioned earlier, the updated return of the first stage for up to ten launches without major repair work after returning to Earth, and to life up to 100 starts the subsequent repair. The previous version included only two runs.
An advanced degree also meets the requirements of NASA to the rockets for manned flights into orbit. In the future SpaceX plans to use it in combination with the Dragon capsule to perform a contract to NASA for the delivery of astronauts on Board the International space station. The first launch crews can be made already this year. The company has already sent to the ISS on its capsule, but it was used simply for the delivery of goods.
Booster Falcon 9 Block 5 successfully launched into orbit a communications satellite Bangladesh
Nikolai Khizhnyak