On December 21, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and landed it vertically on solid ground, at Cape Canaveral, FL. This is the first vertical landing on the ground of the first stage of a rocket from an orbital flight.
The rocket carried a payload consisting of 11 ORBCOMM satellites, and they were successfully deployed.
Here is the full webcast:
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