The SpaceX launch vehicle, considered “historic” for having completed a record 19 missions, has completed its operational cycle after fall off the platform in which he was transported and one half disappeared to the bottom of the sea, The space company announced this.

As SpaceX confirmed in a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which was the longest in the company’s fleet, fell while traveling to a port in Florida, The result of strong winds and waves, and it broke in two.

“This reusable launch vehicle alone has launched two astronauts and more than 860 satellites weighing more than 260 metric tons into orbit in approximately 3.5 years,” SpaceX said on social media.

Spaceflight Now reported that this first stage, designated B1058, completed its final mission last Saturday when transported 23 Starlink satellites, SpaceX’s broadband Internet network and landed about eight minutes after launch on an offshore platform located east of the Bahamas.

On Monday, standing on a platform in the middle of a severe Atlantic storm heading towards Port Canaveral, in central Florida, 41 meter high launch vehicle fell due to strong weather conditions.

“The new Falcon boosters have improved landing legs with the ability to self-level and mitigate these types of problems,” SpaceX explained in its release.

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Among the most notable missions in which this launch vehicle participated is Demo-2, which launched in May 2020. transported former NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. to the International Space Station (ISS), which became the first space flight from US soil in the new years.

This was the first of eleven manned missions flown by SpaceX aboard Dragon capsules, which carried 42 people into space.

(EFE)