Space X: Same First Stage Successfully Used for Third Launch
December 3rd, 2018Via: CBS:
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket using a first stage making a record third flight vaulted away from the California coast Monday, boosting 64 small satellites into orbit for a wide variety of government, academic and private-sector users — including artists — in a commercial launch chartered by Seattle-based Spaceflight.
The Falcon 9’s well-traveled first stage returned to Earth and safely landed on an off-shore drone ship — the “Just Read the Instructions” — to chalk up SpaceX’s 32nd recovery of a spent booster, the first to have flown three times.
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