Before SpaceX proposed landing rockets after use, we simply let rockets crash back into the planet. This was a potentially dangerous and costly exercise.

On Monday, after the successful launch of 46 Starlink satellites, SpaceX landed its Falcon 9 rocket for the hundredth time. To be absolutely clear, this is not the hundredth time the same rocket has landed, but rather the hundredth time Falcon 9 rockets have landed overall.

However, this particular Falcon 9 was also used to launch the Demo-2 mission, the Anasis-II satellite mission for South Korea, the CRS-21 space station cargo mission form NASA, Transporter-1 and Transporter-2 rideshare missions and five different Starlink missions.

After delivering the satellites to orbit, the Falcon 9 rocket touched down on SpaceX’s droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

While SpaceX has now launched three batches of Starlink satellites the launch on 3rd February ran into a cosmic problem. As many as 40 Starlink satellites were sent back to Earth thanks to a geomagnetic storm that occurred at the beginning of February.

That was a small loss in the scope of SpaceX’s ambitions to launch 12 000 satellites and as many as 30 000 more according to a report by Space.com.

SpaceX has now completed a total of 145 launches, 107 landings and it has relaunched 84 rockets. One simply can’t deny how efficient the company is when it comes to launching rockets.

You can watch the launch in full in the video below..