Irma will make landfall in Florida as a Category five Hurricane, which is really strong. Space X raced the clock and successfully launched and landed their thirteenth Falcon 9 flight. This flight carried up an unmanned Air Force space plane called the "X27-B Orbital test vehicle". The details of the plane are pretty classified, but the Air Force did say that the plane was carrying some "Experimental equipment." The launch and landing took a total of 9 minutes.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/07/technology/spacex-launch-irma/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool
That's amazingly fast!
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