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SpaceX Launches DSCOVR Satellite to Deep Space Orbit (spacex.com)
4 points by sandeepmzr on Feb 12, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



"While extreme weather prevented SpaceX from attempting to recover the first stage, data shows the first stage successfully soft landed in the Atlantic Ocean within 10 meters of its target. The vehicle was nicely vertical and the data captured during this test suggests a high probability of being able to land the stage on the drone ship in better weather."

That sounds pretty promising.

There's also a picture of the "landing" on Elon Musk's twitter feed: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/565716774260576262/photo...




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