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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

On Thursday, SpaceX took another step toward reusing rockets when it fired the nine engines on the first stage of a Falcon 9 booster it launched in May. The company released video of the full-duration engine firing, which mimicked the length of a first-stage burn toward orbit, conducted at its test site in MacGregor, Texas.

This particular booster, which launched a Japanese communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit on May 6, will not be re-flown. According to Spaceflight Now, the company designated it as a reference vehicle because it weathered extreme temperatures during its reentry into Earth's atmosphere. The rocket will undergo additional tests as engineers determine the readiness of flown boosters for additional flights into space.

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1. "Arthur T Knackerbracket" - https://soylentnews.org/~Arthur+T+Knackerbracket/
2. "following story" - http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/burn-baby-burn-spacex-test-fires-a-rocket-previously-flown-in-may/
3. "released video" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZQY902xQcw
4. "which launched" - http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/because-failure-is-an-option-spacex-can-do-stuff-like-land-rockets-on-a-boat/
5. "According to" - http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/07/29/spacex-fires-previously-flown-rocket-in-major-stride-toward-reusability/
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