SpaceX successfully commenced a satellite for NASA on Sunday, but a much foresaw attempt to land a rocket on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean did not go as planned.
The satellite was flying on a Falcon-9 rocket, a “two-stage” rocket, according to NOAA.The Jason-3 launch took place at approximately 10:42 a.m. local time -- as charted -- from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, par California’s Central Coast.
About an hour after liftoff, the satellite composed after successfully spliting from the rocket, rounding to a tweet from Space X.
The private spaceflight company had also budgeted an "first landing" of the 1st stage on a SpaceX drone ship in the Pacific. The grounding was depicted as a ''second-rate test objective'' in the release.
