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05-06-2016, 10:59am
SpaceX Nails Rocket Landing At Sea Again (http://www.space.com/32811-spacex-rocket-landing-jcsat-14-launch.html)
For the second time in less than a month, SpaceX has landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a ship at sea.
The booster settled softly onto the deck of SpaceX's robotic "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship at 1:30 a.m. EDT (0530 GMT) on Friday (May 6), nine minutes after launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a successful mission to carry the Japanese communications satellite JCSAT-14 to orbit.
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SpaceX also pulled off a landing on "Of Course I Still Love You" last month, during the successful launch of SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station. But the company wasn't expecting success on Friday morning, because the two-stage Falcon 9 had to send JCSAT-14 to a much more distant geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
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So SpaceX now owns three Falcon 9 first stages that have come back to Earth.
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For the second time in less than a month, SpaceX has landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a ship at sea.
The booster settled softly onto the deck of SpaceX's robotic "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship at 1:30 a.m. EDT (0530 GMT) on Friday (May 6), nine minutes after launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a successful mission to carry the Japanese communications satellite JCSAT-14 to orbit.
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SpaceX also pulled off a landing on "Of Course I Still Love You" last month, during the successful launch of SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station. But the company wasn't expecting success on Friday morning, because the two-stage Falcon 9 had to send JCSAT-14 to a much more distant geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
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So SpaceX now owns three Falcon 9 first stages that have come back to Earth.
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