Information has appeared online that Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has launched a reusable rocket for the first time in the United States.
“This is SpaceX's first launch into polar orbit withCape - this means that on its way into space Falcon 9 will fly south along the east coast of Florida, ”- said in a post published by the official Twitter account of the company.
According to available data, the launch vehicle shoulddeliver an Argentine remote sensing satellite to near-earth orbit. It is likely that, if this launch is successful, SpaceX will continue to send its rockets along a similar trajectory in the future.
Recall that back in March 2020, Elon Musk reported,that one of the nine Merlin 1D + engines in the first stage of the Falcon 9 heavy rocket shut down prematurely during flight. By the way, according to the billionaire, this incident had no effect on the launch of the payload.