It was close, but close doesn’t cut it when you’re dealing with a space rocket. For the fourth time, Space X has failed at the difficult task of landing a rocket on a platform bobbing up and down in the middle of the ocean.

Live video pictures from the barge, anchored in the middle of the Atlantic, showed the glow of the rocket exhaust as it approached, and then the picture froze. It resumed for a second before a testcard appeared, cutting the feed.

Space X CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter later to confirm the landing didn’t work.

Rocket landed hard on the droneship. Didn’t expect this one to work (v hot reentry), but next flight has a good chance.

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