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Spacex's four previous attempts to use one of the drone landing took place about 10 minutes later. Spacex is set for an unexpected drone ship landing on wednesday and explained earlier today why falcon 9 will be taking that detour. Spacex makes history after it lands rocket successfully on ship.

This was spacex's fourth planned attempt to land a falcon 9 rocket at sea after launch.

Spacex finally managed to land its falcon 9 reusable rocket on its autonomous drone ship out at sea after four unsuccessful attempts, with plans for at least two more sea landings later this year. Flip maneuver entry burnatonomous drone ship landingfairing separationpayload separationascentlaunch. Spacex's family of falcon launch vehicles are the first and only orbital class rockets capable of reflight. The rocket then tilted over, splashing down horizontally and remaining intact.