Elon confirms 1st stage did not get a good landing<p><a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/705917924972736512" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/705917924972736512</a><p>Edit - text of tweet: "Rocket landed hard on the droneship. Didn't expect this one to work (v hot reentry), but next flight has a good chance."<p>Very impressive nonetheless. I am wondering if they had a loss of the drone ship?
Rainbow-bars [NO SIGNAL] right when stage 1 was landing on the barge...<p>So suspenseful!<p>The last frame before video cut out <a href="http://i.imgur.com/3HCnn7c.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/3HCnn7c.png</a><p>Edit - looks like stage 1 did <i>not</i> survive landing (this time).<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewBTravis/status/705908015711518720" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/MatthewBTravis/status/705908015711518720</a><p>The Drone Ship says, "Sorry guys :(" <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDroneShip/status/705907706209693696" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/TheDroneShip/status/705907706209693696</a>
They're aiming for 6:35 ET, from the page:<p>We’re targeting today, Friday, March 4 at 6:35pm ET for launch of SES-9. The window extends to 8:06pm ET. The SpaceX webcast is scheduled to go live here (on <a href="http://www.spacex.com/webcast" rel="nofollow">http://www.spacex.com/webcast</a>) and on YouTube about 10 minutes prior to launch. For rocket views, launch countdown audio and telemetry info, use this link for our technical webcast: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkPP2LM8DU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkPP2LM8DU</a>
Another successful Falcon 9 launch. Too bad about the booster landing. The barge landing is very tough; it requires drastic maneuvers in the last seconds to hit that tiny target. The land-based landing pad is much larger.<p>The Falcon Heavy launch was supposed to be next month, but that's slipped to late 2016, maybe.
Nice "intermission" music.<p>I'm glad the launch is going well. After all those false starts a first stage failure would have been depressing.