SpaceX launches Transporter-7 rideshare mission from California, nails landing

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 51 satellites from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at 2:48 a.m. EDT Saturday (0648 GMT; 11:48 p.m. on April 14 California time). Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-transporter-7-rideshare-mission-launch The Transporter-7 mission carried "cubesats, microsats, hosted payloads and orbital transfer vehicles carrying spacecraft to be deployed at a later time," according to SpaceX. The first stage of the rocket landed on the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship in the Pacific Ocean several minutes after separation. Credit: SpaceX