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A 1990s satellite that's been in storage has been launched into space. The satellite will have a new life monitoring potentially dangerous emissions from the sun. The launch would have given the commercial space company SpaceX a chance to try to accurately land its Falcon 9 rocket - a step important to the development of cost-effective reusable rockets, but rough seas forced the company to cancel its effort to land the leftover booster on an ocean platform. [Source: BuzzFeed News]
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