Hours after setting clocks ahead for Daylight Financial savings Time, SpaceX went ahead with a launch of Starlink satellites on Sunday (March 8).
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 GMT or 4:00 a.m. PDT native time) from House Launch Advanced 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg House Power Base in California. About an our later, SpaceX confirmed the profitable deployment of all 25 broadband web relay satellites (Group 17-18) into low Earth orbit.
The Falcon’s first stage, Booster 1097, accomplished its seventh spaceflight with a touchdown on the “Of Course I Nonetheless Love You” droneship, which was stationed within the Pacific Ocean.
The launch elevated the entire variety of energetic Starlink satellites to 9,915, in response to satellite tv for pc tracker Jonathan McDowell.
The mission was SpaceX’s twenty ninth of the yr and 639th in its historical past.
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