---
title: "Watch SpaceX’s Historic Reusable Rocket Launch Live Right Here"
description: "Elon Musk's space launch company looks to be the first to fire a used rocket into space with a payload on top."
date: "2017-03-30"
modified: "2017-03-30"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/tech/8815/watch-spacexs-historic-reusable-rocket-launch-live-right-here"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "launch"
  - "reusable"
  - "rocket"
  - "space"
  - "SpaceX"
---

# Watch SpaceX’s Historic Reusable Rocket Launch Live Right Here

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If all goes according to plan, at 6:27 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time this evening, Elon Musk and his rocket company SpaceX will be set to write their names into the history books yet again. Because tonight, [SpaceX will likely become the first private organization to launch a payload into Earth orbit on a used rocket](<https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/finalses10presskit.pdf>).

See, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that'll be pushing this [SpaceX mission off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 39A](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/7609/spacexs-latest-test-brings-rockets-back-to-nasas-most-famous-launch-pad>) somewhere between half-past six and 9 o'clock will be making its sophomore flight when it helps heft the SES-10 communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit. It first launched back in April 2016, when it helped [bring supplies to the International Space Station during mission CRS-8](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-8>). (That mission also happened to be the first time SpaceX successfully landed a first-stage rocket on an ocean-going barge, a feat it plans to repeat tonight.)

Reusable spaceships are nothing new, of course; each of NASA's space shuttles made repeated trips into space and back. again. But [SpaceX is shooting to become the first private company to usher reusable rockets](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/8656/spacex-preparing-for-first-launch-of-a-reused-rocket>) into commercial use. Making rockets that can be launched repeatedly is a crucial part of SpaceX's goal to lower the costs of space launch. It'll also likely be key to [Musk's plans to send people to Mars](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/5351/elon-musk-reveals-spacexs-incredible-mars-plans>).

The SpaceX livestream feed on YouTube goes hot at 6:27 p.m. EDT. You can [click here to go to the company's official page](<https://www.spacex.com/webcast>)...or, if you'd rather hang out here on *The Drive* (and we wouldn't blame you), you can watch it below.

https://youtube.com/embed/xsZSXav4wI8

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/willsabelcourtney>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)