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Why not? This is a relatively light payload, I thought

Geostationary orbits are always difficult. They need to match the rotation of the Earth, that uses a lot of fuel

This is just a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit mission, the second stage doesnt have that kind of coast capability yet

What's the difference between geostationary and geosynchronous?

Stationary is over the equator and is synchronous with the ground. Synchronous means it flies over the same spot at the same time everyday.

The question was about geostationary vs. geosynchronous. Which is the the same thing. You mixed it up with sun-synchronous. :)

No, Merlin is right - Sun synchronous orbit is a polar orbit where the sat is in constant sunlight

Most of sun-synchronous sats simply fly over same area on earth at same local solar time & go from sun light to shadow aka night every rev

New or refurbished Falcon 9?

this is the same one that lifted the IRIDIUM-1 satellite group back in January.

Awesome, that ups the ante even more then.

Yeap,it does.

Going to be interesting to follow live. I'm amazed every time they land on return. It's mind blowing!

That was amazing to watch, even if the video got cut off for the landing.

Yes,I am really excited for the landing footage of this one.

Me too. Just imagine a few years from now how this iteration improvement process is going to unleash unthinkable possibilities.

Looks like it's leaning a bit to the left. But hey, three engine landing burn worked!

Yeah, you could be right or the touch down velocity has hit one leg a bit harder

That could also happen, they did say that the 3 engine landing burn would be tricky

I'd love to see full footage, after seeing the rocket blast hit the water left of the barge first (before black screen) I thought it'd miss.

Thought the same to be honest.