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The SpaceX rocket booster that carried two NASA astronauts on a historic journey to the International Space Station two months ago took flight once again on Monday evening — this time to launch a hefty communications satellite into orbit.

The rocket took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station around 5:30 pm ET. Inside the bulbous nose cone at the rocket’s tip was a communications satellite that belongs to the South Korean military. SpaceX did not show the satellite deploying from rocket, something the company typically leaves out of its webcasts when taking sensitive national security-related cargo to space.

But the company did show the landing of its first-stage booster, the bottom-most portion of the rocket equipped with nine massive engines that provided the Falcon 9 rocket’s initial thrust at liftoff. The rocket booster SpaceX used for Monday’s mission was previously flown on SpaceX’s first-ever mission with humans on board.

The SpaceX rocket booster that carried two NASA astronauts on a historic journey to the International Space Station two months ago took flight once again on Monday evening — this time to launch a hefty communications satellite into orbit.
The rocket took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station around 5:30 pm ET. Inside the bulbous nose cone at the rocket’s tip was a communications satellite that belongs to the South Korean military. SpaceX did not show the satellite deploying from rocket, something the company typically leaves out of its webcasts when taking sensitive national security-related cargo to space.

But the company did show the landing of its first-stage booster, the bottom-most portion of the rocket equipped with nine massive engines that provided the Falcon 9 rocket’s initial thrust at liftoff. The rocket booster SpaceX used for Monday’s mission was previously flown on SpaceX’s first-ever mission with humans on board.

The SpaceX rocket booster that carried two NASA astronauts on a historic journey to the International Space Station two months ago took flight once again on Monday evening — this time to launch a hefty communications satellite into orbit.
The rocket took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station around 5:30 pm ET. Inside the bulbous nose cone at the rocket’s tip was a communications satellite that belongs to the South Korean military. SpaceX did not show the satellite deploying from rocket, something the company typically leaves out of its webcasts when taking sensitive national security-related cargo to space.

But the company did show the landing of its first-stage booster, the bottom-most portion of the rocket equipped with nine massive engines that provided the Falcon 9 rocket’s initial thrust at liftoff. The rocket booster SpaceX used for Monday’s mission was previously flown on SpaceX’s first-ever mission with humans on board.