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SpaceX just landed its 6th rocket - here are some incredible photos from the launch

SpaceX just landed its 6th rocket - here are some incredible photos from the launch

Here you can see the 229-foot-tall rocket being prepared for launch.

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Targeting launch of JCSAT-16 communications sat at 1:26am EDT Sunday. Weather remains 80% go https://t.co/tdni5406Hi pic.twitter.com/0i1rAx4EjK
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 13, 2016

The Falcon 9 rocket was carrying the Japanese telecommunications satellite JCSat-16, which will deliver video and data services to folks in the Asia-Pacific region.

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The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:26 a.m., as scheduled.

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This was SpaceX's 28th Falcon 9 rocket launch, and its eighth launch of 2016.

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Here you can see the trail of light left behind by the rocket as it launched towards space.

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SpaceX successfully landed the lower portion back on a drone ship floating in the Atlantic ocean. This is the sixth rocket SpaceX has successfully landed back on Earth, and the fourth to land on a drone ship.

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The upper portion of the Falcon 9 rocket went on to carry the satellite into space, dropping it safely into orbit.

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JCSAT-16 comms sat deployed into planned Geostationary Transfer Orbit with 36,000 km apogee (high point in orbit) pic.twitter.com/zScDgaOSzY
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 14, 2016

You can watch the full launch and landing here:

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