Jan. 4 (UPI) –SpaceX launched its first flight of 2025, sending a Falcon 9 rocket into space with a Thuraya 4 satellite from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 in Florida.
The Falcon 9 rocket took off at 8:27 p.m. EST Friday.
Eight minutes and 40 seconds later, the booster returned to Earth for a landing aboard SpaceX’s droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” offshore in the Atlantic Ocean…