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Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2, also known as LZ-1 and LZ-2 respectively, are landing facilities at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station used by SpaceX.They allow the company to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket or the two side boosters of its Falcon Heavy rocket.
Designed and operated by SpaceX, the Falcon 9 family includes the retired versions Falcon 9 v1.0, v1.1, and v1.2 "Full Thrust" (blocks 3 and 4), along with the active Block 5 evolution. Falcon Heavy is a heavy-lift derivative of Falcon 9, combining a strengthened central core with two Falcon 9 first stages as side boosters. [1]
The goals for the test flight were for the Super Heavy booster to land on a 'virtual tower' in the ocean. [106] Super Heavy achieved a soft splashdown, [107] before being destroyed after tipping over. [108] [109] In April 2024, Musk stated one of the goals was to attempt a booster tower landing based on successful booster performance in flight 4.
The perfectly executed landing followed the Starship’s 232-foot Falcon Super Heavy booster rocket gracefully returning to the launchpad seven minutes after launch, where it was “caught” by a ...
SpaceX perfected first-stage landings with its workhorse Falcon 9 rockets, successfully recovering 352 such boosters to date with powered touchdowns on landing pads or off-shore droneships. The ...
The landing mishap ended a string of 267 successful booster recoveries dating back to February 2021. The Falcon 9's second stage, meanwhile, successfully carried 21 Starlink satellites to their ...
A Falcon Heavy core booster is manufactured with structural supports for the side boosters and cannot be converted to a Falcon 9 booster or Falcon Heavy side booster. [citation needed] The interstage mounting hardware was changed after B1056. The newer interstage design features fewer pins holding the interstage on, reducing the amount of work ...
The concept for three core booster stages of the company's as-yet-unflown Falcon 9 was referred to in 2005 as the Falcon 9 Heavy. [15] SpaceX unveiled the plan for the Falcon Heavy to the public at a Washington, D.C., news conference in April 2011, with an initial test flight expected in 2013. [16]