<P> On May 27, 2016, SpaceX landed the first stage of a Falcon 9 on OCISLY during the Thaicom 8 mission, its third time successfully landing on a drone ship at sea . </P> <P> On June 15, 2016, SpaceX failed to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 on OCISLY during the Asia Broadcast Satellite / Eutelsat mission . Elon Musk tweeted that one of the three engines had low thrust, and when the rocket was just off the deck, the engines ran out of oxidizer . </P> <P> SpaceX's Falcon 9 Flight 28 propelled the Japanese JCSAT - 16 telecommunications satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit on August 14, 2016 . The first stage re-entered the atmosphere and during the night landed vertically on Of Course I Still Love You, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean nearly 400 miles from the Florida coastline; unlike previous successful landings, this landing - burn only used one engine, not three . </P> <P> On January 14, 2017, the first - stage of a Falcon 9 landed on the Pacific ASDS JRtI during the Iridium NEXT - 1 mission . This marked the first successful landing on JRtI and the first landing in the Pacific Ocean . </P>

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