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| The rocket launch on Sunday, Oct 7, was an amazing sight! It looked just like this from Lemoore, and Tim also reported seeing it from Strathmore. |
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's first stage has landed back at its California launch
site after carrying an Argentinian satellite
into space.
The primary purpose of Sunday's mission was to place the
SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit, but SpaceX also successfully sent a first stage
booster back to Vandenberg Air Force Base for the first time.
SpaceX has previously landed first stage rockets on land
after Florida launches but had
not done so on the West Coast.
The satellite is the first of two for Argentina's space
agency. It carries a high-resolution instrument called a synthetic aperature
radar that will be used for emergency management and land monitoring.
Retrieved on October8, 2018, from: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-carrying-an-argentinian-satellitelands-back-at-launch-site-.html
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