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Source: Reuters

Technology | Fri May 6, 2016 10:33am EDT

SpaceX rocket launches satellite, then lands on ship at sea

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. | BY IRENE KLOTZ

An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Friday to put a communications satellite into orbit, then made a swift return landing on an ocean platform, a live webcast showed.

It was the second successful landing at sea for entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, which intends to offer cut-rate launch services by re-using its rockets.

"Woohoo!!" Musk wrote on social media website Twitter after the landing. “May need to increase size of rocket storage hangar.”

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The rocket flying on Friday was traveling twice as fast as the one that landed last month so it could deliver a hefty television broadcast satellite into an orbit more than 20,000 miles (32,200 km) beyond that of the International Space Station, which is about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-launch-idUSKCN0XX0B4

The cost of space travel will be cut big time when they start reusing the first stage.