Elon Musk’s SpaceX used a recycled Falcon 9 booster to deliver a national security satellite to orbit for the first time Thursday.
The 230-foot-tall rocket, topped with the GPS III SV05, ignited its nine Merlin engines at 12:10pm ET at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 40.
‘Go Falcon and go GPS,’ a host of the mission said during the livestream as the Falcon 9 took off with bright blue skies hanging above.
‘We are pretty excited to watch today’s landing because it marks the first mission supporting the US Space Force with a flight driven booster.’
And the milestone was…
