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Night launch of the second block SpaceX block 5 Falcon 9.
Video capture by Eric Mack / CNET
SpaceX launched its second Falcon 9 "5-block" rocket in the dark of Florida early Sunday morning at local time, and was charged with the most commercial communications satellite heavy never built.
Recall started from Cape Canaveral at 1:50 am Eastern Standard Time with the Telstar 18 Vantage broadband satellite, a 15,600-pound beast (7,016 kilograms) that will provide connectivity to customers in the Americas.
This huge spaceship is ideal for Block 5, which the CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk called the "final version" of the Falcon 9, capable of raising a little more and ready to be reused up to 10 times without repackaging. SpaceX has launched the first block 5 rocket in May and will launch a third in California next week. The first flight of a block 5 Falcon 9 has not yet been announced.
The launch of Sunday morning was followed by a successful landing on the spacecraft "Of Course I Still Love You" parked in the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX has another block 5 scheduled for Wednesday from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. This mission will send 10 new Iridium telecommunications satellites into orbit.
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