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Watch high-speed footage of past SpaceX launches
If you didn't get the chance to watch previous SpaceX missions blast off, this video can bring you up to speed. It shows what the private space corporation has been up to these past few months, including the engine burn and launch of the May mission that carried Japanese communications satellite JCSAT-14 to orbit. That rocket's first stage landed on a drone ship even if the company didn't expect to succeed, because it came back from a particularly high orbit that made things difficult. SpaceX recently took out the first stage from that trip for a test fire, and its booster burned for 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
SpaceX give you three looks at its rocket's night landing
Last week SpaceX stuck a night landing on its droneship, and now (just after Blue Origin posted a ridealong view from its reusable rocket) we've got some video of the event. Three slightly different angles from the ship show the rocket coming down, a difficult event this time because it was the first landing after a "GTO-class" mission, meaning geostationary transfer orbit. Anyway, all's well that ends well, and we have some incredible night footage to show for it -- check it out below.
