SpaceX launches 48 Starlink satellites, lands rocket on ship at sea (video)
SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit today (July 7) and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea.
Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is a commercial company aiming to launch cargo, and eventually people, to low-Earth orbit. The firm is developing its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster under contracts from NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program and its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.
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