Two rockets launched within 15 minutes of each other Wednesday morning

Update July 25th, 9:25AM ET: Both rockets successfully launched on time this morning. While the Ariane 5 launch is still ongoing, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 completed its mission in a little over an hour. The rocket’s booster managed to land on the company’s drone ship in the Pacific, despite poor weather conditions at the site. There was some confusion at first about whether it survived, thanks to bad lighting on the boat, but SpaceX later got visual confirmation that the booster touc