See how close SpaceX came to landing its latest rocket

Looks like early liquid oxygen depletion caused engine shutdown just above the deck http://pic.twitter.com/Sa6uCkpknY
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 17, 2016

Elon Musk has released footage of yesterday's attempt to land a Falcon 9 rocket booster on a drone ship at sea. It was SpaceX's eighth attempted sea landing, and the fifth time that the rocket didn't survive. The payload for this mission — two communications satellites — was successfully delivered to space shortly after the attempted landing.

High orbit missions make it hard to land

Before this mission, the company had been on a bit of a streak, having landed three Falcon 9 boosters in a row over the course of the last three months. The strange thing about this most recent...