How to watch SpaceX try to land its rocket on a drone ship today.

On Friday, SpaceX will attempt to launch an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, the first cargo run to the space laboratory since the company's Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated after launch above Florida in June. SEE ALSO: SpaceX misses its rocket landing on a drone ship... again The private spaceflight company founded by Elon Musk is also hoping to bring the first stage of the rocket back down to Earth, landing it on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean successfully for the first time. The Falcon 9 rocket is set to take flight at 4:43 p.m. ET, and you can watch the launch and landing live directly through SpaceX or in the window below. This means that if the rocket is launching a particularly heavy payload, or a smaller payload to a higher orbit, it will need to come back and land on the drone ship because of the high amount of fuel needed to make those missions successful. Definitely harder to land on a ship.