SpaceX rocket landing

SpaceX has successfully landed an unmanned rocket upright, after sending 11 satellites into orbit. It is the second booster to achieve the feat after the smaller New Shepard rocket landed in Texas in November
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LAUNCH
Lift-off from LC-40
Stage separation
Booster flips over before descent
Soft landing at LZ-1
Payload continues to space
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First stage Incorporates nine Merlin engines – fuelled by liquid oxygen and
kerosene – able to produce up to 1.5 million pounds of thrust
Hypersonic grid fins (x4): Unfold during descent to aid stability
Second stage (with composite faring): Latest mission carried 11 Orbcomm
communication satellites
Landing legs: Fold down to stabilise rocket
Merlin engines
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LANDING
First stage: Rocket must slow from nearly 5,800km/h to zero
Launch Complex 40 (LC-40)
Kennedy Space Centre
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION
Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1)*
Cape Canaveral
68.4m
3km 1.8 miles
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Sources: SpaceX, wire agencies
*Formerly Space Launch Complex 13