Courtesy: Minhaz Ul Karim Asif, Batch-201 DC, Dept. of EEE, Green University of Bangladesh
World’s one of the richest and craziest
person, an entrepreneur , CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk has given a revolutionary
change in the field of rocket and
spacecraft in last decade.
Falcon 9 Rocket is the world’s first
reusable, two-stage rocket
designed and manufactured by SpaceX. It
was made for the reliable and safe transport of people and payloads into Earth
orbit and beyond. It is world’s
first orbital class reusable rocket.
The first test flight of Falcon 9 was on
June 4.2010 from Cape
Canaveral, Florida and first resupply mission to the ISS was made on October 7,
2012. In 2014 tests
began on a reusable first stage for the Falcon 9 that would land on a floating
platform. On December 21,
2015, a Falcon 9 launched a payload into orbit, and its first stage made a
landing at Cape Canaveral. The
first Falcon 9 first-stage ship
landing happened on April 8, 2016. It
was a day, when no one ever thought about it.
A reusable rocket, boosters are coming back to the
Earth. It was a day of
next generation rocket development.
The first Falcon Heavy test flight occurred on February 6, 2018.
The central core stage was not
recovered, but the two side boosters successfully returned to Cape Canaveral.
The payload, a Tesla Roadster, with a SpaceX
spacesuit buckled into the driver’s seat, was placed into orbit around the Sun.
Falcon 9 launched the first private crewed spacecraft, a Dragon carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken, to the ISS on May 30, 2020.
Carrying the good works, Bangladesh is
also a part of Falcon 9 rocket’s history.
Bangladesh’s first geostationary communications and
broadcasting satellite called “Bangabandhu – 1” was also launched by Falcon 9
rocket.
So far, Falcon 9 Rocket has made 122
successful launches and a total number of 82 landings.
Elon Musk expects to send more rockets to the Earth
orbit and ISS. However, he is
working on making Starship Rocket in order to colonize Mars.
Elon Musk expects to send cargo through Starship
Rocket by 2024 and the first 2 crewed Starship by 2026.
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor”- Elon Musk
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