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Credit & Copyright: John Kraus
Explanation:
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
launch dazzled
viewers
along
the U.S. west coast after sunset on October 7.
Rising
from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, planet Earth,
the Falcon 9's first stage then returned to a landing zone
some 400 meters from the launch site less than 8 minutes after liftoff.
Both launch and first
stage landing
(left) are captured in the frame of
this two image stack, recorded by a stationary, sound-activated camera
set up on a nearby hill.
This Falcon 9 rocket delivered its payload, an
Earth-observing satellite
developed by Argentina's national space agency, to low Earth orbit.
Of course, the Falcon 9 first stage had
flown before.
Following a launch from Vandenberg on July 25
it was recovered after landing on the autonomous drone ship
Just
Read the Instructions.
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