News about South Korea, spy satellite

Falcon 9 launches the @ESA_EO EarthCARE mission, first stage booster returns to Earth pic.twitter.com/mTcZ4D3Ct1

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on Landing Zone 4 – completing this booster’s seventh launch and landing pic.twitter.com/hx08G2nNIF

KCNA bulletin on the launch. It is (at least in the English translation) a bit ambiguous on whether this was a Chollima-1 rocket, or a new rocket. Note that last November, with the Malligyong-1 launch, the Chollima-1 first stage also blew up, short after separation. pic.twitter.com/U9a5mJc7iV

LAUNCH at 2220 UTC of Falcon 9 from Vandenberg pad 4-East with the European Space Agency's 2200 kg EarthCARE satellite carrying atmospheric study instruments