There's Something Familiar About This Rocket Elon Musk Wants to Send to Space
- Next week’s mission will deliver SES-10 satellite into orbit
- Reflying rockets critical to Musk’s affordable-space vision
SpaceX to Reuse Falcon 9 Rocket This Week
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If the rocket Elon Musk’s SpaceX expects to launch next week looks familiar, that’s because it is.
The Falcon 9 rocket slated to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, has flown before, marking the first time Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will refly one of the 14-story-tall boosters it recovered from past missions. The reused rocket will ferry a communications satellite into orbit for Luxembourg-based SES SA, SpaceX’s first commercial customer, and signals a leap forward in Musk’s 15-year-quest to drive down launch costs and eventually create a human colony on Mars.