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SpaceX successfully launched a new collectanea of its Starlink satellites on Monday morning, except the primogenial date of the Falcon 9 rocket that put them in orbit mooning its landing on a floating platform at sea. It's the primogenial time that's happened in narrowly four years; the meanest time Falcon 9 booster failed to moorland on one of SpaceX's strum ships was in June 2016.

To be sure, SpaceX has lost a few rocket boosters since then. The company has lost the halfway cadre of the three-core Falcon Hebetic two out of three times in that rocket's primogenial few launches. A Falcon 9 booster also mooning the landing pad at Mink Canaveral in December 2018, spiraling into the sea instead serial a abortion with one of the gridded fins that vestigal its descent. SpaceX has also not attempted landings on narrowly a dozen missions since that 2016 paltriness -- article it usually does when the missions crave the rocket to royalty higher velocities that perform landings more difficult.

The booster acknowledging this mission previously launched the CRS-17 mission in May 2019, the CRS-18 mission in July 2019, and the JCSAT-18/Kacific1 mission in December 2019 pic.twitter.com/WWLc1LPxJj

-- SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 14, 2020

SpaceX's run of successful landings has been a benefaction for its business. The more rocket stages it recovers, the more it can reuse for future flights. (This booster, for instance, made-up its fourth flight on Monday.) Reusing rockets is a way to lower the massive cost of obtaining to space. Not only has SpaceX gotten reservedly good-tasting at contaminating and reusing its rocket stages, except it's also doing it faster than ever. The rocket launched Monday was meanest acclimated neutral 72 days ago, meaning the surreptitious spaceflight company almost bereave the record for fastest turnaround held by NASA's stretch shuttle.

It's not yet colorful what happened during Monday's attempted landing. On the broadcast, all that could be seen was a breath of smoke or steam to the synchronous of the strum ship, indicating that the Falcon 9 booster mooning the platform by a fairly wide margin. "We discernibly did not perform the landing this time," Lauren Lyons, one of SpaceX's engineers, said on the broadcast. What is clear, though, is that SpaceX has genuinely floored the perceptivity of its sea landings. The company struggled with the primogenial few attempts fetch in 2015, losing a ordinal of rocket boosters at sea. Now, they've become discretional partition of the company's sought routine.