This rocket has changed the space, so much can already now say. More than 60 Times the “Falcon 9” of the US company SpaceX has launched in the meantime. And in about half of cases, the first stage of the flight device is returned gently to earth. She has placed either on a ship or on a concrete helipad.

More than a dozen Times the company has sent then such a used rocket back into space. Because that is your promise: the re-usability of the technology, the price for flights into space will drop dramatically in the future.

In a Wednesday evening Central European time planned launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, SpaceX is aiming for another milestone: For the first Time, a two-Time previously flown rocket is to be used – so for her third flight within a year. And without that major repair work to the aircraft. However, the launch was delayed the last one and a half weeks, because in a previous Start another “Falcon 9” the problems of a jet engine of the first stage had occurred.

A single rocket) to 100 inserts

come for The Start on Wednesday provided the rocket carries the internal serial number B1046 and belongs to the latest Version (“Block 5”. In may, it has launched a communication satellite for Bangladesh in the Orbit, in August and then one for Indonesia.

For the future has set SpaceX, of course, much more ambitious targets for the re-usability: Ten Times in a row, is a “Falcon 9 to fly”stage before it comes to maintenance and repair once back in the Hangar. A total of even 100 launches per rocket should be possible.

you might also REUTERS SpaceX-Manager, king of man: “For Mars, I’m too old”

however, This will take a while Now the third application in the series is for the first time. At the top of the rocket, an eclectic mix of more than 60 larger, but mostly smaller satellites from 17 different countries from Australia to Thailand, sitting this time.

Responsible for the US company Spaceflight Industries out of Seattle. The bought the “Falcon 9”, complete, SpaceX, and then as a kind of collective taxi to All customers in all world markets, who can afford no own rocket. “Smallsat Express” the Mission is.

tomato breeding in the flying greenhouse

Because each user pays only costs up a relatively small proportion of the start-up, the All at once for many users, affordable. Many universities, in Germany, from Berlin and Munich, have Mini-satellite for the training of their students on Board.

So it is coming but also that, in addition to research missions, such as the German science-developed-the-fly learning the greenhouse “Eu:Cropis” , in the tomatoes with reduced gravity to grow, even Mini-missiles, such as “Elysium Star 2” are aboard the rocket. This illegal bahis is a small cube that contains parts of the ashes of more than 100 deceased. After two years in Orbit it to burn up in the atmosphere and the surviving dependants as a shooting Star enjoy.

Or satellite “Enoch” , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art sent out into space. It did, as the responsible for the project artist, says Tavares Strachan, the “soul” of the first African-American astronaut candidate Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. This was in the year 1967 in the case of a flight accident – before he could launch into space.

artist Strachan wants to remember him now with a so-called canopic jar. So it was called in ancient Egypt, the vessels in which the internal organs of the Mummified bodies were buried. The gold-plated vessel, which will now be sent to the memory of Lawrence in the space, does not contain any of his Remains. It shows but a small bust of him, and was declared in a Shint Shrine in Japan, officially to the “container of the soul” of the deceased.

discussion of the flying reflector

Somewhat curiously, the “Orbital Reflector” , another artist named Trevor Paglen to send with the rocket wants to. This satellite will do is to reflect as much sunlight and sucks some of the astronomers is exactly why huge. They fear, as in the case of the earlier this year by the new Zealand space travel Manager Peter Beck shot “Humanity Star”, a kind of flying disco ball, to the accuracy of your measurements.

the “Falcon 9” load a flying General to All, should rather remain an exception. The clarified Spaceflight-Industries-in-chief Curt Blake just before the Start. It was just too complicated and exhausting to get the Builder of 60 satellites simultaneously to get the technology and paperwork ready in time.

Therefore, it is not unlikely that the company for your business set in the future on smaller rockets. At SpaceX, in turn, is interested in tends to be more for a larger vehicle for the flight into space. Sooner rather than later, you want to make the extremely powerful “BFR” in the service – and then make even flights to Mars. There head of the company Elon Musk wants to establish preferably a human colony.

must complete the “Falcon 9” but still a lot of missions – and thus earn good money. For the coming year are already planned, now more than 20 times, in addition, the company also wants to bring, as soon as all the safety completed the test, astronauts to the International space station.

The rocket from Wednesday is supposed to land after completing a flight to a remote controlled ship off the coast of California. And then, soon, ready for your next use.