Having all but mastered landing their reusable Falcon 9 boosters, SpaceX on Thursday test-fired one of those rockets at full thrust for 150 seconds (the same amount of time they have to function during an actual trip to space) to demonstrate that they can indeed work a second time.

According to Ars Technica and The Verge, the test-fire took place at the aerospace firm's testing site in MacGregor, Texas, and involved a Falcon 9 rocket that in May had been used to delivered a Japanese communication satellite into orbit. Said booster was upright and secured for the entire duration of the test, which was designed to simulate the length of a first-stage burn.

SpaceX has posted video of the test-fire to YouTube, and while CNET correctly pointed out that there is "nothing super dramatic" about the whole thing. Officials are touting Thursday's event as the first full-duration, stand-up test of a recycled rocket – and as such, an important step forward in their work.

To date, the California-based aerospace firm has successfully landed five Falcon 9 boosters, the first on which came following a commercial satellite launch last December. Three additional landings, all involving autonomous sea-based landing platform, occurred in April and May of  this year, while the fifth landed on the ground earlier this month.