{"id":15298,"date":"2016-08-20T23:29:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T15:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-puts-historic-flown-rocket-on-permanent-display\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T23:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T15:29:34","slug":"spacex-puts-historic-flown-rocket-on-permanent-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-puts-historic-flown-rocket-on-permanent-display\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX puts historic flown rocket on permanent display"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crews outside the SpaceX\u2019s headquarters in Southern California on Saturday positioned the booster that stuck the first Falcon 9 rocket landing for vertical display, and now the launcher is an unmistakable Space Age trophy visible to passersby on nearby streets and freeways.<\/p>\n

Workers put the rocket near the southeast corner of SpaceX headquarters at the intersection of Crenshaw Blvd. and Jack Northrop Ave. in Hawthorne, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The 156-foot-tall (47-meter) rocket stage landed at Cape Canaveral after a Dec. 21 launch with 11 Orbcomm communications satellites.<\/p>\n

It was the first launcher stage SpaceX recovered after years of effort, during which the company switched from a plan to retrieve rockets with parachutes to an outside-the-box scheme involving multiple engine restarts, landing legs, and precision landing algorithms.<\/p>\n

The rocket stage unlatched from the Falcon 9\u2019s second stage at an altitude of more than 250,000 feet (80 kilometers) about two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad, then steered back to Florida\u2019s Space Coast with the help of three rocket burns, culminating in a final maneuver to guide the booster with GPS navigation to a seaside landing target.<\/p>\n

The touchdown marked the first time a rocket landed in such a manner after sending a satellite toward orbit. Burning leftover kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants, three of the rocket\u2019s Merlin engines fired to reverse the first stage\u2019s course, erasing the vehicle\u2019s nearly 4,000 mph (6,000-kilometer per hour) downrange velocity as the booster continued to soar higher.<\/p>\n

Then the rocket began a supersonic descent, and the trio of Merlin engines fired again for a re-entry burn. Finally, a single engine lit seconds before landing to slam on the brakes.<\/p>\n

SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk declared shortly after the rocket landed that he planned to put it on display outside the company\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n

The placement of the booster upright required approval by the Federal Aviation Administration because SpaceX\u2019s sprawling factory is located next to Hawthorne Municipal Airport.<\/p>\n

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After a thorough scrubbing to wash away soot residue from flying through its own exhaust, the rocket arrived in Hawthorne in June before going vertical in front of SpaceX\u2019s main building Saturday with the help of two heavy-lifting cranes.<\/p>\n

It joins SpaceX\u2019s first Dragon capsule at the company\u2019s headquarters. That spaceship, which flew into orbit in 2010, hangs inside the lobby.<\/p>\n

Falcon 9 boosters recovered since the first one are being put to use as SpaceX strives to fly a previously-flown first stage on a satellite launch later this year. The second Falcon 9 launcher to return to Earth \u2014 landing April 8 on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean \u2014 is assigned to be the first rocket to fly a second time.<\/p>\n

It would be the first time a space launcher\u2019s first stage has been used twice, and would make the Falcon 9 only the second partially reusable launch vehicle in history, after the space shuttle.<\/p>\n

SpaceX shipped another used rocket booster to its Central Texas facility for ground tests aimed at proving the Falcon 9\u2019s first stage can survive multiple missions.<\/p>\n

More photos of the Falcon 9 rocket going on display are posted below.<\/p>\n

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