Watch SpaceX launch and land its Falcon 9 rocket this afternoon

The Verge ------- A little over a week after its last launch, SpaceX is back at it with a rocket launch out of Vandenberg, California this afternoon. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket is sending an Earth-observation satellite called FORMOSAT-5 into orbit for Taiwan’s space agency. And after launch, SpaceX will pull off its rocket landing stunt again, by having its Falcon 9 touch down on one of the company’s drone ships in the Pacific Ocean. With today’s launch, it seems that SpaceX is picking back up its mission pace. This year, the company has started to make good on its promise to do a mission every two weeks, by launching with more frequency and regularity since May. However, SpaceX took a bit of a break for the month of July — partly because the launch sites in Florida were closed during that month to undergo maintenance. Still, the company has counted 11 successful missions so far in 2017. Prior to this, the most SpaceX had ever launched in a year was eight rockets. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.