The SpaceX Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship is an ocean barge equipped with station keeping engines that has a large platform for landing the first stage rockets for reuse.
Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS)
Tag: Falcon-9
SiriusXM Satellite Launched 12/13/20
SiriusXM’s SXM 7 spacecraft, built by Maxar in Palo Alto, California, was lifted into space Sunday December 13, 2020 by a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket. Another successful launch, for the partially reusable Falcon-9, surpassing the speed of sound in one minute and the first stage landing perfectly on the SpaceX’s drone ship “Read the Instructions” marking the booster’s, B1051, seventh trip into space and back.