Watch the first SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lift off since a catastrophic launch pad explosion at Cape Canaveral in September 2016. The rocket, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on January 14, 2017, was carrying 10 satellites for the Iridium mobile phone and Internet communications company. The Falcon 9 first stage was successfully recovered after landing on a floating platform in the Pacific.
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Live coverage: Soyuz lifts off from Vostochny Cosmodrome
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Successful Proton launch deploys Eutelsat satellite, first Mission Extension Vehicle
A Proton booster rocketed away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazaskhtan Wednesday with a Eutelsat television broadcasting craft and the satellite industry’s first commercial in-space servicing vehicle. The successful launch marked the first commercial Proton mission under the auspices of International Launch Services in more than two years.
