Launch vehicle Falcon 9 private space company SpaceX Ilona Mask put into orbit a satellite of the US military and space reconnaissance. After that, the first stage of the missile landed at the US Air Force base at Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida.

It is noted that the launch was planned for April 30, however, due to malfunctions of one of the sensors, it was postponed to May 1. For the company, this was the first launch of a military satellite. Details of the mission were classified. The founder of SpaceX Mask said that the launch was complicated by strong gusts of wind.

Earlier it was reported that when testing a SpaceX rocket in Florida during the test launch on September 1, an explosion occurred, followed by several more.

SpaceX several times managed to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 on a floating platform in the ocean and twice landed at the cosmodrome. The company was founded in 2002 by the former owner of PayPal electronic payment system Ilon Mask. She is a private developer of the carrier rocket series and commercial operator of space systems.