{"id":14935,"date":"2017-01-17T18:46:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T10:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/falcon-9-booster-first-recovered-off-west-coast-back-in-port\/"},"modified":"2017-01-17T18:46:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T10:46:54","slug":"falcon-9-booster-first-recovered-off-west-coast-back-in-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/falcon-9-booster-first-recovered-off-west-coast-back-in-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9 booster, first recovered off West Coast, back in port"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket launched Saturday has returned to port in Southern California after landing on a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, ready for refurbishment and potential reuse on a future mission.<\/p>\n

The 15-story booster and its barge, named \u201cJust Read the Instructions,\u201d were towed into the Port of Los Angeles, a few miles south of SpaceX\u2019s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, before sunrise Tuesday after sailing from the touchdown point in the Pacific.<\/p>\n

The rocket is the seventh Falcon 9 first stage recovered by SpaceX since December 2015.<\/p>\n

Counting recovery attempts on land and at sea, SpaceX is now 7-for-12 in rocket landing tries after launches carrying satellites into orbit. It was the first time SpaceX has succeeded in retrieving a rocket intact after a launch from California.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s mission blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California\u2019s Central Coast and deployed 10 next-generation communications satellites into orbit nearly 400 miles (700 kilometers) above Earth for Iridium.<\/p>\n

It was the first SpaceX mission since a Falcon 9 exploded on a launch pad in Florida on Sept. 1, grounding the rocket for four-and-a-half months.<\/p>\n

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