SpaceX launches, lands recycled Falcon 9

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched and landed once again, delivering a commercial communications satellite into orbit in the process.

The satellite, called the EchoStar 105/SES-11, was put into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).

SpaceX completely the launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Wednesday, October 11 just after the two-hour launch window opened at 6:53 p.m.

Falcon 9 landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which is stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.