SpaceX launches Japanese communications station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared to life and shot away from Cape Canaveral early Friday, lighting up the night sky with a streak of fiery exhaust as it boosted a powerful Japanese communications satellite into space. Chalking up a double success, the JCSAT-14 relay station was delivered to the intended preliminary orbit -- the primary goal of the mission -- and the rocket's first stage carried out a controlled landing on an offshore barge, or "droneship," the second such successful landing in a row. More

(Source: CBS News - May 7)