AFP | Monday January 5, 2015 | 21:46 hrs
Miami The US firm SpaceX will try today its Falcon 9 rocket landing on a platform in the Atlantic following the launch of its capsule Dragon bound for the International Space Station (ISS), which will take provisions. The company based in California, led by billionaire Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, has established a 50-50 chance of success in the bid to guide the powerful first stage of a rocket into a platform that is 200 miles from the North coast of Florida, after its launch from Cape Canaveral scheduled for 11:20 am SpaceX, working for two years in the development of technologies to retrieve the first section of his rockets to significantly reduce costs launches, has already achieved smoothly pose the Falcon in September 2013 and twice this year. But achieving a precise landing on a floating platform in the ocean is “much more difficult”, explained the company through a previous release.
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