On Friday, May 27, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket completed another successful landing at sea, when it vertically landed on a droneship. The last successful attempt happened only last month, suggesting that the future of reusable rockets is getting pretty bright.

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More specifically, this event marks the third time that the private space company completed a vertical landing at sea, in the past several weeks.

The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:40 P.M. EDT. After two and a half minutes from launch, the Falcon 9 rocket's two stages separated where the first stage of the rocket landed almost flawlessly on the deck of the autonomous floating barge, some 420 miles off the Florida coast.

After about nine minutes from launch, the first stage rocket of the new Falcon 9 maneuvered back to land, initiating and completing a successful vertical landing for the reusable rocket while the second stage of the launched a 6,600 pound THAICOM 8 satellite into lower Earth orbit.

SpaceX mission crew and employees standing by at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California were ecstatic, cheering on, as the first stage immediately completed another milestone landing.

In order to complete an ocean landing, mission engineers were met by numerous challenges when it comes to the rocket's re-entry due to high speed velocities and extremely hot temperatures upon descent, including a significant amount of pressure placed on the rocket.

According to SpaceX, for the missions that are headed for geostationary orbits, the first stage rocket will be expected to experience extreme velocities and heating upon re-entry in the atmosphere which can make a successful landing rather challenging.

CEO and founder Elon Musk, tweeted the rocket landing speed was designed close to maximum used up contingency crush core, resulting in a back and forth motion, which was probably okay but could risk of tipping.

The very first successful landing at sea occurred on April 8 after launching SpaceX's Dragon cargo re-supply capsule to the International Space Station. The second successful attempt followed last May 6 after a challenging maneuver, after placing a Japanese communications satellite in orbit.

Watch last Friday's epic third rocket landing here.

Last Friday's launch involves SpaceX's second commercial launch of a communications satellite which will provide data and broadcast services over South Asia and Southeast Asia, which was carried out in just three weeks, making this record breaking feat a true milestone in space launches.

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