SpaceX just set a ridiculous record with its Falcon 9 rocket - Yahoo Entertainment

The most recent example of this is a booster that has flown not just twice or a few times, but a full 10 launches.

The rocket booster, designated B1051, launched on Sunday morning.

Not only that, but the booster did what it had already done nine times previous and performed a controlled landing on a SpaceX drone ship parked in the ocean.

B1051 is the first SpaceX booster to reach the 10-launch milestone.

That’s not to say that the company’s previous boosters couldn’t have done the same, but SpaceX has at times chosen not to recover its boosters.

Other times, the boosters were lost due to no fault of the rocket itself.

Also, as Ars Technica notes, SpaceX boss Elon Musk has long been of the opinion that a 10-launch booster is a goal that the company should be shooting for.

Being able to reuse a rocket many times over is also a huge advantage for a company that is in the midst of building its own satellite-based high-speed data network.

The cost of launching 60 Starlink satellites is a lot more reasonable when you can reuse the same rocket 10+ times, with each launch adding another 60 satellites to the growing horde.

There’s a very good chance that the rocket booster will be retired and put on display, though there’s been no confirmation from SpaceX one way or the other.

This is the second of three planned booster recovery missions, part of Rocket Lab's long-term plan to reach reusability for its launch vehicle, an achievement most famously held by its competitor SpaceX.

NASA has had a great deal of success with its Mars helicopter Ingenuity.

The aircraft took the long trip from Earth to the Red Planet while strapped to the belly of the Perseverance rover, and once it was dropped off at its first Mars "airstrip" it didn't take long for the helicopter to begin its flight testing.

Now, with its fifth flight in the books, the helicopter has completely relocated to a new area of Mars and logged its longest flight so far.

For its first four flights, the Mars helicopter took off and landed in the same location.

Each of those flights got more complicated as time went on, with the first being a simple take-off and landing, and the fourth being a long back-and-forth trip across the surface of the planet.

The fifth flight was the first and only (so far) where the helicopter took off and landed at two different locations.

When the trip was over and the helicopter had arrived over its new landing spot, its handlers decided to send it to new heights.

The scientists think that the predator that surprised the squid may have been a species of ancient shark, though they can't say for certain.

The Long March 5B rocket successfully delivered its payload into orbit on April 29, in the first of 11 missions needed to complete China's first permanent space station by 2022

Media reports warned of an "uncontrolled" re-entry of the rocket's core stage, rekindling memories of debris from the flight of the first Long March 5B in May 2020, which damaged buildings when it landed in Ivory Coast