SpaceX launches and recovers the first block of a rocket – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The US company SpaceX launched today successfully its rocket Falcon 9 – aimed at putting into orbit 11 satellites -. and was able to recover intact the first space vehicle of the block, in an unprecedented operation

rocket was launched at 20h29 on Monday (1:29 a.m. Tuesday in Lisbon) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and minutes after launch, the first rocket pack, which provides you with power take-off, broke free and began to return Earth smoothly, while the second group continued to carry satellites into space.

Thanks to the help of engines that softened the fall, the first block down gently and landed vertically, 11 minutes after launch, revealed images of the operation disclosed directly by business tycoon Elon Musk.