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ACHIEVEMENTS

Major achievements to date:

• Successfully launched the Falcon 1 rocket into orbit (2008).

• Launched, orbited and recovered the Dragon spacecraft (2010).

• Delivered supplies to the ISS on the unmanned Dragon cargo ship (2012).

• Launched its first commercial satellite, SES-8, into orbit (2013).

• Launched DSCOVR - a deep-space observatory that aims to alert people on Earth of potentially dangerous solar activity and geomagnetic storms (2015).

• Successfully launched and landed the Falcon 9 rocket - a major milestone in the drive to cut costs and waste by making rockets as reusable as planes (2015).

• The first re-launch and landing of a used orbital rocket (Falcon 9 Flight 32 — March 30, 2017).

• The first controlled fly-back and recovery of a payload fairing (Falcon 9 Flight 32 — March 30, 2017).

• The first re-flight of a commercial cargo spacecraft. (Falcon 9 Flight 35 — June 3, 2017).

Falcon 9 first stage on an ASDS barge after the first successful landing at sea, CRS-8 Mission.

Falcon Heavy on Launch Pad

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