Elon Musk (Photo : REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)
"Droneship is fine," Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk tweeted on April 15, Wednesday. "No hull breach and repairs are minor. Impact overpressure is closer to a fast fire than an explosion."
The tweet was posted after Musk released a high-resolution, color-corrected and slow-motion video of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket landing. In a post on April 14, Tuesday, he claimed in a tweet that the rocket "landed fine but excess lateral velocity caused it to tip over post landing."
In its first attempted landing in January, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket touches down on a floating platform before it topples over and explodes. The dramatic explosion was a result of the rocket running out of hydraulic fluid for its steering fins and crashing into the platform, CBC News reported.
During the recent second attempt, SpaceX once again unsuccessfully landed the rocket as the company tried to develop a booster rocket, which can be used again on future space missions.
After successfully sending an unmanned Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), the rocket separated and attempted to land on an unmanned barge, which the company SpaceX described as "an autonomous spaceport drone ship."
Dubbed "Just Read the Instructions," the barge floated approximately 322 kilometres off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla.
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said the company hopes that the next rocket landing will take place not at sea but on land, Defense News reported. In June, Space X will make a third landing attempt during a space station resupply mission.
Watch the CRS-6 first stage landing video released by Space X here:
