Elon Musk's famous space company, SpaceX, has marked the new year by launching first Falcon 9 rocket to a new communications satellite to space for Turkey. SpaceX launched the first pair of next-genertion broadcasting birds, Turksat 5A, launched to orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Thursday night when the weather was forecasted to be 70 per cent favourable.

Watch: Elon Musk's SpaceX launches first Falcon 9 rocket of 2021

SpaceX has launched its Falcon 9 rocket, sending an unusual payload into space 64 satellites at the same time, a US record. And the company headed by US tech billionaire Elon Musk marked another milestone on Monday in its bid to make rockets more re-usable, like airplanes: the blast-off used a recycled booster for the third time.

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Watch: Elon Musk's SpaceX launches first Falcon 9 rocket of 2021

SpaceX launches 64 satellites at one go