SpaceX rockets have proved many of its successful flights and landings. Now, SpaceX wants to have the opportunity to reuse the rockets.
SpaceX will be launching its rockets next week to prove that it can be reused, Florida Today reported. The launch will take place at Kennedy Space Center on a theme, "flight proven." The company wants to show that the recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 can be reused and relaunched again.
According to The Motley Fool, one era of SpaceX travel just ended last March 16, 2017, yet another one will begin soon. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is not designed for relanding, but theoretically, the company will be about to build more expandable rockets soon. Eventually, this theory did not come into reality for SpaceX had another idea, and that is reusing its rockets.
The idea of making their rockets reusable started when the SpaceX Falcon 9R had landed on a landing pad on its way back to Earth in December 2015. Since then, the company is working on how to make SpaceX rockets reusable. SpaceX aims, "To quit throwing away expensive rocket ships, to drive the cost of all space launch down for even a few percentage points over the cost of launch fuel."
SpaceX exploration can cut the cost of up to 75% in every space travel, if the rockets particularly the SpaceX Falcon 9 comes reusable. Furthermore, the goal of SpaceX is not to beat its competitors such as Airbus, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, but to make space travel cheap for other companies without enough funds.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have been proposing the idea for a long time and improve the innovation in fulfilling its Mars mission "In order for us to really open up the access to study space, we've got to achieve full and rapid reusability," Musk said. If the idea of reusability became successful, the SpaceX Falcon 9 will surely one of the first rockets to be examined for reusability.
