Videos: Previewing SpaceX’s eighth International Space Station resupply launch

The accomplishment came during Wednesday’s flight of the Starlink 10-56 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The touchdown was also SpaceX’s 494th overall successful booster landing.

Targeting a resumption of Antares cargo launches to the International Space Station as soon as July, Orbital ATK plans to roll out an upgraded Antares rocket to a launch pad in Virginia this week for a 30-second firing of the booster’s new engines.

The first 10 spacecraft for a planned U.S. military mega-constellation launched from California Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting in place the keystone for a multibillion-dollar network of hundreds of small satellites to improve defenses against hypersonic missiles and other emerging threats.