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[10:05 UTC/5:05 EST] Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho. Aww, better luck next time.

SpaceX has said that they will announce the status of the first stage as soon as they know on the webcast. And if successful (and they have a good link to the barge), they'll also play a replay of the landing.

EDIT: Or not. Looks like they wound down the SpaceX broadcast. NASA TV is still broadcasting the launch though.

It'll be a few minutes. They said they'll show video of the landing on the stream if it is successful so it's worth sticking around until the stream is done.

Edit: hmmm, maybe that was wrong info, looks like they'll tell us about the landing on twitter. Probably time to head to bed I guess then.

It won't take long to reach the surface but I don't think we'll get the news of whether it was successful or not for some time...