SpaceX Nails Landing of Reusable Rocket on Land

Jun.30 -- SpaceX launches 88 satellites, including three for Starlink, into orbit. Elon Musk says he wants to use the Starlink satellites to beam broadband internet everywhere in the world except the polar regions by August. After this latest launch, the Falcon 9 first stage rocket came back to Earth and landed at Cape Canaveral, instead of on a drone ship out in the ocean.

[krelbar]

I don't think people truly understand how difficult this is. Seriously. How the hell does this cylinder stabilize enough for a pinpoint landing?

[stephenmartinez]

When I was a kid the old sci-fi ships used to land like this

[richclean]

so the first time I saw this, I was convinced someone was playing a video backwards, my brain just could not process its brilliance…I don’t know about anyone else, but deffo on my bucket list to watch this for real 🤔

[kennefoma]

Space x has done such a wonderful job landing these boosters over the years. These days its seems kind of normal.

[alexanderrahl]

Dude. This is HUGE. Future of humanity huge

[pebre]

Just another day launching and landing rockets. Amazing job spacex team!

[LordTrayus]

In hindsight, it's strange that it took us this long to design something reusable.

[nateb]

The amount of math required to program this is AMAZING

[generalnonsense]

Saw different versions of this 5 years ago. This is quite possibly one of the coolest and satisfying things I've ever seen. I was by myself but cheered.

[krelbar]

Boggles the mind how a cylinder can stay stabilized on liftoff....let alone on touchdown.

[randallstewart]

So, how many times do they expect to reuse these boosters? Do they plan to part them out to reuse the shells while replacing the engines at some point? I watched the Saturn launches and before them. My comparison, these launches seem routine and without the constant expectation at that the next one would blow up on the pad. I suspect thaat much of difference between then and now is the computers, the ones used to design and test the designs now before they get launched, and even more so, the large number of computers which control every aspect of the rocket's functions. The computing power in a Saturn rocket wouldn't have run an I-Pad.

[Xmokko]

I used to make these same videos with my friends in high school.
We never used a cheer and clap track in our videos though. Nice touch

[Dawho]

Any upcomming launches that will return to cape canaveral? Would love to watch this in person

[rcpmac]

Horrible edit - left out the best video of the landing taken from below. Look elsewhere, it's worth it!

[Sthousand]

I cant imagine a more grand illustration of the difference computers can make, connected to sensors reading altitude and controlling thrust and thrust vectoring, to gently place that thing in exactly the right spot, without tipping over! 🤣

[ildefonsovilar]

NASA has been trying this for years. SpaceX: "hold my beer "

[williammejia]

American technology is something else extraordinary from the world, i still bealive it's the best country

[daniellemiddleton]

Untucking real. Absolutely amazing. It’s so astonishing that it looks almost fake. I just can’t…great job people… great job

[KunnngDruger]

is there any footage where they land one with one continuous camera?

[michaelhiers]

If you think you can land a light pole falling from the sky you will believe ANYTHING