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SpaceX, an American space transport company, has said that an experiment to land part of a Falcon 9 rocket on a floating ocean platform was unsuccessful.
The SpaceX rocket, which carries supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Dragon spacecraft, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral at 4.47 a.m ET Saturday.
The mission had originally hoped to send the first stage of the rocket into space before separating from the second stage, which ignites and delivers the Dragon capsule to the ISS.
The first stage was then supposed to embark on a gentle descent to Earth, and while it successfully managed this – floating 200 miles off Jacksonville, Florida, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reported that the landing had been hard.
He also said that while there was no damage to the rocket, the company was unable to get a good video of the landing, and would instead have to piece it together from a combination of telemetry and video footage.
Although the landing didnt go quite to plan, Musk also confirmed that the Dragon capsule was currently en-route toward the ISS.
