Originally start rocket Falcon 9 was scheduled for Sunday, but twice postponed due to technical problems and bad weather.

Tonight, a private space company SpaceX and NASA successfully launched into orbit the DSCOVR satellite designed to monitor solar activity. During start-up specialists SpaceX planned to plant separated from the rocket carrier on the marine platform, but due to bad weather from this plan had to be abandoned.

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Initially the start of the launch vehicle, the Falcon 9 was scheduled for Sunday, but twice postponed due to technical problems and bad weather.

Rocket was successfully launched from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) and carried out the first part of the plan, meteorological satellite was launched into orbit.

Second, and more important for SpaceX, the task was a test method of preserving the first level of the media.

Mask expected "soft" to ground the separated carrier on a special platform in the waters of the Atlantic, but because of bad weather experts had to abandon the landing stage.

Landing on a stormy sea pic.twitter.com/7EY25g3IU5

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Recall that on 10 January SpaceX already tried "catch" breakaway stage rocket, however, the landing was "hard" and the carrier is collapsed, damaging the marine platform.

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