SpaceX's
breathtaking bullseye rocket landing in gifs
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Elon Musk's SpaceX just proved that they're still one of the best in the
rocket launching game.
On Saturday, after a more than four month hiatus, SpaceX successfully launched its first Falcon 9
rocket since an explosion in September forced them to ground all flights.*
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SpaceX returns to flight in style, launching satellites and landing a**ther rocket
**t only did the Falcon 9 successfully deploy 10 Iridium communications satellites to their expected orbits, SpaceX also managed to land the first stage of its booster back on Earth after launch.*
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The
rocket launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:54 p.m. ET into a beautiful, cloudless sky.
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