SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Arrives In Port Canaveral After Last Week’s Historic Launch and Landing
By Space Coast Daily // April 4, 2017
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – SpaceX Falcon 9 booster has made it back to Port Canaveral Tuesday morning aboard the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched right on time at 6:27 p.m. Thursday from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A carrying the SES-10 communications satellite for SES.
SpaceX also successfully landed the first-stage booster on the company’s autonomous spaceport drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You, in the Atlantic Ocean.
This is the same Falcon 9 rocket that launched in April 2016 that delivered cargo to the International Space Station.
The SES 10 communications satellite, owned by SES of Luxembourg, will provide direct-to-home TV broadcasting and other telecommunication services for Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America. It will also cover Brazil and support offshore oil and gas exploration.
This was SpaceX’s first opportunity to prove that their rockets can be reused with success.
ABOVE VIDEO: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch Thursday from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A carrying the SES-10 communications satellite for SES-10. The rocket booster will attempt to land on a drone ship tonight.
