SpaceX launches communications satellite, recovers rocket for 2nd time

Friday, June 23, 2017
HAWTHORNE, Calif. (KABC) -- SpaceX had another successful satellite launch and recycled rocket landing on Friday.

The Hawthorne-based company sent a commercial communications satellite into orbit. The trip marked the second time SpaceX has used the first stage of a Falcon 8 rocket. Recycling equipment is important to the company's efforts to lower costs.
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The rocket that carried the satellite, called BulgariaSat-1, into orbit launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida around noon. The Falcon 9 rocket was piloted back to Earth and landed in the Atlantic Ocean minutes after it took off.

SpaceX will launch more mass communications satellites on Sunday.
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City News Service contributed to this report.
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