SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket after launching Japanese satellite

[Zorro]

Source: AFP

SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket on a floating drone ship at sea early Sunday after the vehicle had sent a Japanese communications satellite into orbit.

The California-based company's eighth launch this year was part of its ongoing effort to re-use costly rocket parts instead of jettisoning them into the ocean.

It was also the fourth time SpaceX has vertically landed a used Falcon 9 rocket aboard a floating platform at sea.

The white rocket launched under a dark night sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:26 am (0526 GMT).

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-lands-falcon-9-rocket-launch-073220596.html

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This is now getting routine. Gotta give Elon credit where credit is due.

[truthisfreedom]

1. Elon rocks, and his teams rock too. Very cool!

[longship]

2. They stuck the landing on "Of course I Still Love You" drone ship.

Great name. That would be the third successful at sea landing. (IIRC)

And they put it just a couple of feet from the X in the middle of the barge.


Damn! They're getting good at this!

R&K

[Historic NY]

3. I'm blown away every time they do it....

its like those old Flash Gordon rocket landings..

[bananas]

4. Can't wait for BFR launches to become routine!

That thing is gonna be a monster!