SpaceX simply lofted one more batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink craft lifted off from foggy Vandenberg House Power Base in California at present (Sept. 13) at 1:55 p.m. EDT (1755 GMT; 10:55 a.m. native California time).
It was the three hundredth Starlink mission that SpaceX has launched so far, in keeping with the corporate.
About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9’s first stage touched down within the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Nonetheless Love You.” It was the twenty eighth launch and touchdown for this specific booster, which is designated B1071.
That is two away from the reuse document, which a special Falcon 9 booster set late final month.
Earlier Booster 1071 missions
The Falcon 9’s higher stage continued hauling the 24 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, the place they have been deployed 62.5 minutes after liftoff, in keeping with SpaceX.
The brand new arrivals are becoming a member of greater than 8,300 different lively spacecraft within the Starlink community, by far the biggest satellite tv for pc constellation ever assembled.
Right now’s launch was the one hundred and fifteenth Falcon 9 liftoff of the yr. Greater than 70% of those missions have been Starlink flights.
Editor’s observe: This story was up to date at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 13 with information of profitable satellite tv for pc deployment.
