There will come a day when SpaceX landing a rocket back on Earth after launching a payload to space isn’t a news story, but today is not that day.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took flight from launch pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 3:34 p.m. ET, landing back on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 10 minutes later, after sending a Korean communications satellite on its way to orbit.
While the rocket does appear to have landed successfully, it looked “a little toasty,” in the words of SpaceX’s webcast host. The lower part of the Falcon 9 first stage seems to have caught fire during the landing. Read more…
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