---
title: "Watch as SpaceX Launches Another Firecracker—And it Could Blow Up"
description: "In which the customer is always right, especially when you’re late."
date: "2016-02-24"
modified: "2016-02-24"
authors:
  - name: "Michael Frank"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/michael-frank"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/2323/watch-as-spacex-launches-another-firecracker-and-it-could-blow-up"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "SpaceX"
---

# Watch as SpaceX Launches Another Firecracker—And it Could Blow Up

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is a lot like Elon Musk’s Tesla: they’re as much in the service business as they’re about breaking technological barriers. So although SpaceX made huge news last December by [successfully recovering its rocket booster](<https://www.thedrive.com/design/1238/drive-wire-spacexs-falcon-9>), this time around—tonight, in fact, at precisely 6:46:17 p.m. EST—you can expect no such success as you [watch the webcast](<https://www.spacex.com/webcast>).

[**Watch the webcast here.**](<https://www.spacex.com/webcast>)

That’s because the customer, Luxembourg’s SES, a satellite company that provides mobile and video bandwidth to Asia and South Asia as well as to trans-Pacific Airbuses supplying the Internets to cramped coach passengers, was expecting this satellite to go into orbit last September.

That didn’t happen. Two months earlier, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was supposed to resupply the International Space Station blew up, jumbling the rest of SpaceX’s schedule for 2015.

https://youtube.com/embed/u5Nk3b42NkY

https://youtube.com/embed/BhMSzC1crr0

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