SpaceX has racked up another rocket launch, its 16th this year. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off Monday afternoon from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, hoisting a communications satellite for the South Korean company KT SAT. This newest Koreasat will replace a failed satellite launched in 2006, and serve both Asia and the Middle East. But SpaceX confirmed success despite the choppy seas and some flames shooting from the landed booster. "A little toasty, but stage one is certainly still intact," said the launch commentator from company headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

Source: ABC News October 30, 2017 19:58 UTC