article_snippet.sent: Earlier this year a dispute over a design of a floating landing platform - which would be used to launch and land rockets in the middle of the ocean - was dragged through the courts.
article_snippet.sent: According to The Washington Post, SpaceX has been working on the technology for years, and in January attempted the unprecedented landing the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating barge its calls an autonomous spaceport droneship.
article_snippet.sent: However the barge and its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating barge exploded.