SpaceX Will Make 'Reusable' Spacecrafts!

Saad Riaz Qazi
Technology Writer

It was told by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk that the company is planning for the development of reusable spacecrafts which using retrorockets can land softly on Earth and other planets also.

This idea is for both space capsule and its rocket booster which can do the “propulsive landing,” when they enter back into the atmosphere then using rocket thrusters soft landing can be done on the surface.

For this spacecraft to become reality the testing is in progress and designs are also made to make sure it is possible or not.

Musk says that;  

We are not still sure that we can get success in this project but we are trying, making designs on paper and doing calculations.

This kind of landing would need much fuel energy as compared to the landings with parachutes. Russians are using the technique which is first slow down the rocket with parachute and a moment before landing a rocket burst is used for soft landing on the surface.

SpaceX is testing the launch escape system. Musk says that the thrusters are on the sides of the spacecraft and a propulsive landing could be done by this, in addition it can be helpful in gentle landing on Mars.

Dragon spacecraft’s first design is ready to take the astronauts to the space station and then back to the Earth.