Launch News SpaceX's Historic First Reuse of a Falcon 9 First Stage with SES-10 - March 27, 2017

Some nice video of the landing from the ASDS:


If you look at the video at the end that shows the stage standing you can see how much the deck rolls. Amazing it can land so solidly.
 
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Would the 'auto-pilot' be able to control the unbalanced forces resulting from that ?

Most likely went out of control and crashed beyond camera view ?

No, it reached heliocentric orbit. "Collapsed" is sounding a lot more impression than it likely was, a pressure difference between the composite outer shell and the metal inner shell simply made the shells detach and collapse inside the fairing, so the separation system did no longer work.

For the next launch a few weeks later, they used a heavier all-metal fairing.
 
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