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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 carrying Starlink satellites Sunday
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SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying nearly two dozen Starlink satellites to orbit from the Space Coast Sunday night.According to the commercial spaceflight company, the mission lifted off at its scheduled time at 8:53 p.m. Sunday night from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.This Starlink mission sent 23 Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit. The satellites will join a growing constellation of small satellites that provide high-speed internet across the globe.The Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster supporting the mission has previously flown 14 times. Other missions the rocket booster supported include CRS-27, Bandwagon-1 and ispace’s HAKUTO-R MISSION 1.SpaceX landed the Falcon 9 first stage booster on a ship in the Atlantic several minutes after launch.
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying nearly two dozen Starlink satellites to orbit from the Space Coast Sunday night.
According to the commercial spaceflight company, the mission lifted off at its scheduled time at 8:53 p.m. Sunday night from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
This Starlink mission sent 23 Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit. The satellites will join a growing constellation of small satellites that provide high-speed internet across the globe.
The Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster supporting the mission has previously flown 14 times. Other missions the rocket booster supported include CRS-27, Bandwagon-1 and ispace’s HAKUTO-R MISSION 1.
SpaceX landed the Falcon 9 first stage booster on a ship in the Atlantic several minutes after launch.
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