CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. – SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket, hours after it launched a crew of astronauts to the International Space Station.
The next batch of Starlink satellites lifted off at 9:05 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
After the first stage of the rocket separated, it returned to Earth and landed on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship pic.twitter.com/7AXYbB63Vw
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