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SpaceX Makes Most Ambitious Landing To Date

Recovers Booster On Its Drone Ship Following Launch Of Japanese Satellite

SpaceX has recovered a Falcon 9 booster in a landing attempt that company founder and CEO Elon Musk gave about a 50-50 chance of succeeding.

Gizmodo reports that in the small hours of Friday morning, SpaceX launched a JCSAT-14 satellite into a geostationary orbit. The satellite was deployed successfully, but that meant that the Falcon 9 booster was coming back to earth from higher and at a faster velocity than had been attempted before.

They stuck the landing. Again.

It is the second time in about a month that SpaceX has successfully recovered a booster on the floating barge. Elon Musk tweeted shortly after the booster landed that the company "may need to increase the size of [its] rocket storage hangar."

(Image from SpaceX YouTube video)

FMI: www.spacex.com

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