SpaceX launches but rocket landing fails

SpaceX has blasted off with supplies for the International Space Station.

The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket

The SpaceX company has launched another fresh load of supplies to the International Space Station. (AAP)

The SpaceX company has successfully launched another fresh load of supplies to the International Space Station.

But its revolutionary attempt to land the leftover booster on an ocean barge did not fare as well.

SpaceX's billionaire founder Elon Musk says the first-stage of the unmanned Falcon rocket made it to the platform floating a couple of hundred kilometres off Florida's northeastern coast.

But he said the booster came down too hard and broke apart.

"Close but no cigar this time," Musk said on Twitter. But he said it bodes well for the future.


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