SpaceX lands a Falcon 9 booster for the 200th time
SpaceX performed its 200th rocket booster landing during its latest rideshare mission, Transporter-8.
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What was the name of the SpaceX droneship that the Falcon 9 booster landed on?
The private space firm launched 72 small satellites to orbit yesterday, June 13, aboard a Falcon rocket that took off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:35 pm EDT (2135 GMT). Only eight minutes after launch, the rocket's first stage returned to Earth for a vertical landing.
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From which launch site did the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink satellites launch?
It was the ninth launch and landing for this particular booster and SpaceX's 200th booster landing, the company wrote in a mission description on its website.
SpaceX's first Falcon 9 booster landing took place on December 2015, and the company has since carried out landings following missions that have sent astronauts to orbit.