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2. Autonomous spaceport drone ship - Wikipedia

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   An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is a modified ocean-going barge equipped with propulsion systems to maintain precise position and a large landing platform. SpaceX developed these vessels to recover the first stage (also called the booster) of its launch vehicles. By recovering and reusing these boosters, SpaceX has significantly ...

3. SpaceX reusable launch system development program - Wikipedia

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   Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship, in port in January 2015. A large floating landing platform for launches where the first stage does not have sufficient fuel to return to the launch site. As of 2022, SpaceX built three autonomous spaceport drone ships, one operating the West coast and two on the East coast of the United States.

4. Falcon 9 B1056 - Wikipedia

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   The vehicle landed aboard the autonomous spaceport drone ship Of Course I Still Love You approximately eight and a half minutes after launch. [2] Normally, first stages supporting CRS missions land at LZ-1 , however a failed static fire of a Crew Dragon contaminated the landing pad.

5. Floating launch vehicle operations platform - Wikipedia

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   Gravity-1 launch in January 2024. A floating launch vehicle operations platform is a marine vessel used for launch or landing operations of an orbital launch vehicle by a launch service provider: putting satellites into orbit around Earth or another celestial body, or recovering first-stage boosters from orbital-class flights by making a propulsive landing on the platform.

6. Spaceport America: The Hub Where Future Commercial Space ...

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   Spaceport America in southern New Mexico is the super-cool launchpad from which Virgin Galactic promises to send its first commercial spacecraft into Spaceport America: The Hub Where Future ...

7. Falcon 9 first-stage landing tests - Wikipedia

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   The first tests aimed to touch down vertically in the ocean at zero velocity. Later tests attempted to land the rocket precisely on an autonomous spaceport drone ship (a barge commissioned by SpaceX to provide a stable landing surface at sea) or at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1), a concrete pad at Cape Canaveral. The first ground landing at LZ-1 ...

8. Spaceport’s ‘floating road’ over peat bog nearly finished ...

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   Orbex aims to carry out its first launch from the ‘carbon neutral’ spaceport in northern Scotland next year. Spaceport’s ‘floating road’ over peat bog nearly finished ahead of test ...

9. Milestone as spaceport applies for licences to launch ...

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