Ho, hum, another day, another SpaceX rocket landing on a drone ship in the ocean.
The Elon Musk-founded private spaceflight company just landed their third Falcon 9 booster on a drone ship floating in the ocean after launching the Thaicom 8 communications satellite on its way to orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Friday.
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Initially, SpaceX played down the odds of a landing success saying in a press kit that “the first-stage will be subject to extreme velocities and re-entry heating, making a successful landing challenging,” due to the high orbit the satellite needs to be placed into. Read more…
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