SpaceX’s launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying 11 Iridium satellites, the 4th such launch for Iridium, On 2017-12-22 at 5:28pm Pacific time.

The video starts rough, a little boring, but picks up at first stage separation. We get a very clear view of both stages and the faring pieces after separation, including seeing the maneuvering thrusters on the first stage as it turned around and performed its boost back burn and reentry burn to “land.” (It went through all the motions, but didn’t actually land; the drone ship wasn’t there. They wouldn’t be able to refly this booster, so they didn’t bother trying to recover it.)

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