US private spaceflight company SpaceX last night successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket following an orbital launch.
The rocket, which carried a payload of 11 small satellites for business communications company Orbcomm successfully launched from Cape Canaveral at 20:29 last night. Approximately 10 minutes later, following stage separation and no less than three separate re-entry burns, the first stage made an almost perfect landing back at the launch site. “11 satellites deployed…
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