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After successfully delivering a US-European ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit, a Space X rocket made a hard landing on a floating barge in the roiling Pacific, breaking a support leg and toppling over.
SpaceX announcers said the first stage of the Falcon 9 was not upright after reaching the 300-by-170 foot landing pad in choppy seas about 200 miles west of San Diego on Sunday.
The rocket launched as planned at 10:42 a.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Los Angeles, streaking through a cloud-filled sky before eventually sending its second stage and a Jason-3 satellite into orbit.
The failed landing was a setback for the Hawthorne, California, company's plan to reduce launch costs by reusing rockets rather than having them fall into the ocean. Meteorologists predicted swells of 10- to 13-feet where the barge waited for the landing attempt.
Elon Musk's video of the failed SpaceX landing proves even failures can be epic: https://t.co/fORL5CelKP https://t.co/dnGHCkv4CV
- Mashable (@mashable) January 18, 2016
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Twitter that the rocket's speed at touchdown was OK, "but a leg lockout didn't latch, so it tipped over after landing."SpaceX keeps getting closer to nailing its barge landing https://t.co/2JJzyPyjb0 pic.twitter.com/nZ6vXz7goG
- Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) January 18, 2016
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