Noobenheim News for Nerds 
On June 15th, at 10:29 AM Eastern Time, the SpaceX Falcon 9 took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. While the payload of two communication satellites did make it into Geostationary Transfer Orbit successfully, the booster wasn’t so lucky. Upon its attempted landing on SpaceX’s drone ship, named “Of Course I Still Love You”, the Falcon 9 underwent what CEO Elon Musk calls a RUD – a “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.”
Ascent phase & satellites look good, but booster rocket had a RUD on droneship
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2016
As you can guess, it wasn’t pretty. Elon tweeted “[…] Maybe hardest impact to date. Droneship still ok.” From what we understand, it did land on the ship, which means there will be a lot of wreckage on board for the company to comb over to see what when wrong. The video of the landing will be available once the drone ship gets back to port. We’ll be sure to update with a link when that video goes online.
Landing video will be posted when we gain access to cameras on the droneship later today. Maybe hardest impact to date. Droneship still ok.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2016
The satellites are EUTELSAT 117 West B and ABS-2A. As you may have guessed, EUTELSAT 117 West B joins its companion, EUTELSAT 117 West A, in servicing Latin American customers of the Paris-based company Eutelsat. ABS-2A is owned by Bermuda-based Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) and joins its companion known as ABS-2, and will service customers across Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
For those of you who missed it, or who just want more information (and pretty pictures), you can visit the SpaceX coverage of the launch or watch the SpaceX webcast below.
