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Urgent: SpaceX launches ocean-monitoring satellite, attempting to land rocket on boat

Xinhua, January 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

U.S. private spacecraft company SpaceX launched on Sunday morning an ocean-measuring satellite for NASA.

It will make another attempt to land the spent first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on an uncrewed "drone ship" in the Pacific Ocean. Enditem