Last night, SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral, FL. This is the first successful recovery of a rocket that launched a payload to orbit. The Falcon 9 delivered 11 Orbcomm-OG2 second-generation satellites to orbit around the Earth.
Earlier this year, Blue Origins (owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos), landed a rocket vertically after reaching sub-orbital flight.
Source: https://youtu.be/ZCBE8ocOkAQ (SpaceX)
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