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.
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.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:26 a.m., as scheduled.
This was SpaceX's 28th Falcon 9 rocket launch, and its eighth launch of 2016.
Here you can see the trail of light left behind by the rocket as it launched towards space.
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.
The upper portion of the Falcon 9 rocket went on to carry the satellite into space, dropping it safely into orbit.
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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