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SpaceX marks another successful rocket landing
SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket once again on Sunday morning, for the sixth time in the last eight months. The Falcon 9, a two-stage rocket, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 1:26 a.m. ET Sunday, and returned for a landing on the deck of a robotic ship less than nine minutes later. While in the air, it boosted JCSAT-16, a commercial communications satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit. The Falcon 9's successful launches mark significant progress toward the private spaceflight company's goal of developing fully reusable rockets.