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A SpaceX official said the company still plans to attempt to land the first stage after the SES 9 launch, but profile change means there will be a lower chance of recovering it. SpaceX has tried landing Falcon 9 first stage boosters on football field-sized ships three times, but the rocket has not survived intact.
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/02/09/ses-says-spacex-will-launch-its-satellite-in-late-february/Кстати, вроде при пуске DSCOVR они похожий трюк сделали.
"Given the DSCOVR mission design with a longer first stage burn needed to achieve the planned insertion energy,
there was not enough propellant margin to perform a boost-back burn to actively control the downrange travel distance of the first stage booster. Without an active boost back, the landing spot of the first stage was further off-shore than for previous missions - around 650km downrange, 300km further than for the first ASDS landing attempt in January.
Heading back in, the first stage kept a stable posture with its engines pointing forward
to make a short 19-second re-entry burn once reaching 70 Kilometers in altitude. This burn slowed the vehicle down from over 1,200 meters per second and provided shielding of the engine compartment to create protection from the most strenuous environments occurring at re-entry. For this mission, the first stage had to endure
about twice the force and four times the heat loads of the last mission - reducing the overall probability of success but also providing
interesting data with respect to future return missions of the central core stages of Falcon Heavy that will have a much greater energy than the side boosters and single-core vehicles.
Время пуска 24 февраля [23:46 - 01:23 UTC]
