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SpaceX is back in business:
SpaceX returned to flight Saturday after a 4½-month hiatus. The private space exploration company headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:54 a.m. PT, taking 10 satellites into space for voice and data company Iridium. It marked the company's first launch since a Falcon 9 rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in September.
The launch's success Saturday was made even sweeter by a smooth return landing for the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage booster. It safely returned from space and glided to a landing on a seafaring platform, known as a drone ship.
The hosted launch coverage is available on YouTube.
Also at NPR, Reuters, and NYT.
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After Months of Delay Following Explosion, SpaceX Finally Launches More Satellites
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(Score: 2) by ticho on Sunday January 15 2017, @08:56AM
The signal from the camera was also much more reliable this time, only few very short stutters, instead of entire several seconds of no signal. And this time, the camera was even on the landing stage, not stationary on the barge. Yay progress!