Elon Musk, a billionaire behind the SpaceX company, unveiled on Friday, 9 July, the company’s third autonomous spaceport drone ship named ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’.
Autonomous SpaceX droneship,
A Shortfall of Gravitas pic.twitter.com/hNZ5U7nxUg— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 9, 2021
As informed, A Shortfall of Gravitas is made from a converted deck barge, which is designed as a landing pad for SpaceX’s rockets. The drone ship is fully automated with no tugboat required to take it out into the Atlantic Ocean, Musk informed in another tweet.
The new Autonomous SpaceX droneship will be put in Florida to support Atlantic launches of Falcon Heavy and the flagship rocket of SpaceX, the Falcon 9.
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Founded back on 2002, SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp, designs and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, with the aim to reduce transportation costs and eventually enable the colonization of Mars.
