SpaceX has carried out a successful relaunch of its Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket, flying with a communications satellite for Telkom Indonesia. The rocket lifted off from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday morning and splashed down into the Pacific Ocean about 20 minutes later. The recovered Block 5 booster, designed to enable first-stage reuse at least 10 times, will now undergo a thorough inspection before being prepared for a third launch.
SpaceX has carried out a successful relaunch of its Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket, flying with a communications satellite for Telkom Indonesia. The rocket’s first stage, which first lifted off in May with the Bangabandhu-1 satellite for Bangladesh, landed for a second time on the drone ship in the Atlantic. The recovered Block 5 booster, designed to enable first-stage reuse at least 10 times, will now undergo a thorough inspection before being prepared for a third launch.