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After soaring skyward due east, the rocket's first-stage booster landed aboard SpaceX's drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Commercial GTO 1 mission at 1:04 a.m. Sunday, July 13 from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Known as Dror-1, the payload was a geostationary communications satellite for Israel. No further details were released.