28+ Spacex Rocket Landing On Barge 2020 Pictures. Commenting on the failed effort, spacex's ceo, elon musk, compared a rocket landing on a floating platform to a jet landing on an aircraft carrier, saying that. The private space company spacex has successfully landed a rocket on a barge floating in the atlantic ocean.

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Spacex have begun sending rockets carrying supplies to the international space station and have created the barge to provide a landing platform once the rocket makes it back to earth. Spacex blasts off into a new space age. Spacex botches rocket landing on california barge.

But the video feed cut out just before the rocket came to the barge.

It launched from cape canaveral with a cargo ship heading for the international space station. The saying is space is hard, and it seems that's especially true when you try to end a trip to space by gently landing your rocket on a robotic barge in december, spacex successfully landed one of its falcon 9 rockets on land for the first time at cape canaveral after a successful satellite. Or maybe more swimmingly, depending on how you look at it. It's the first time the company.