Watch Space X’s Falcon 9 Rocket New Attempt to Take Off and Land on a Barge [LIVE FEED]

A live feed of Space X’s launching a Falcon 9 rocket to provision the ISS and then attempting to land it intact. This is a live feed, geeks!

Edit: Oups. The rocket blew after 2 minutes and 19 seconds in the air (that was the last time the rocket’s computer sent an update to ground control.) It was shortly before first stage shutdown. More details to come.

Edit 2: There will be a contingency press conference at around 12:30PM EST. Unfortunately, we won’t learn anything new by then.

Edit 3: From Elon Musk:

There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause. That’s all we can say with confidence right now. Will have more to say following a thorough fault tree analysis.

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