SpaceX released a spectacular video showing how close the company’s Falcon 9 booster came on Sunday to sticking its first landing atop the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship.
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#SpaceFlower out in the sun for the first time! #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/Cghu9XGv1J — Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 17, 2016 #GoodMorning #Texas!
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Making its second launch from the West Coast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-4E on Sunday, successfully delivering
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SpaceX can celebrate another successful mission, launching their Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday for its second west-coast mission – successfully placing into orbit the Jason-3 oceanography satellite in a U.S.-European collaboration.
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SpaceX was not able to achieve the company’s next milestone on Sunday when their Falcon 9 first stage booster came in hot and made a hard landing in the latest attempt to fly the rocket to the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship located in the Pacific Ocean.
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Timeline and Flight Data Reconstruction for the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of the Jason-3 satellite, Sunday, January 17, 2016
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Making its second launch from the West Coast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-4E on Sunday, successfully delivering the Jason-3 satellite to orbit after a 56-minute ascent mission to begin a mission dedicated to the continuation of a two-decade record of Ocean Altimetry, tracking currents and winds across the world’s oceans.
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The final Falcon 9 v1.1 rockets stands tall atop its West Coast launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force base to await its liftoff with the Jason-3 satellite.
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First ever flower grown in space makes its debut! #SpaceFlower #zinnia #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/2uGYvwtLKr — Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 16, 2016
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A fully assembled Falcon 9 rocket has been rolled to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base for the first time in over two years for Sunday’s planned launch of the U.S.-European Jason-3 Oceanography Satellite.
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Jason-3: Pre-Launch News Conferences
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SpaceX conducted a Static Fire Test of the Falcon 9 booster that recently launched and returned to Florida’s space coast, becoming the first rocket stage to propulsively land after sending a payload on its way to orbit.
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A Briz-M propellant tank re-entered the atmosphere on January 15, 2016 after seven years in orbit
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A Long March 3B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on January 15, 2016 after three months in orbit, making a slow decay from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Today’s exhilarating #spacewalk will be etched in my memory forever – quite an incredible feeling! pic.twitter.com/84Dn3gHA70 — Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake)
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Astronauts Tim Kopra and Tim Peake ventured outside the hatches of the International Space Station on Friday to embark on a spacewalk dedicated to the restoration of the Station’s Electrical Power System by replacing a failed voltage regulator.
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China opened the reign of space launches in 2016 on Friday with the successful launch of a Long March 3B rocket carrying the Belintersat-1 communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit to become the first Belarusian communications satellite.
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