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SpaceX notched another spaceflight record as it completed the first orbital flight that featured a liftoff in one country and one in another. A little more than eight minutes after lifting off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the Falcon 9 rocket booster landed on the droneship, Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) positioned off the coast of the island named Exuma in The Bahamas.
Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-12 mission happened at 6:21 p.m. EST (2321 UTC) on Tuesday, Feb. 18. This was SpaceX’s 21st orbital launch attempt of the year.
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SpaceX notched another spaceflight record as it completed the first orbital flight that featured a liftoff in one country and one in another. A little more than eight minutes after lifting off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the Falcon 9 rocket booster landed on the droneship, Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) positioned off the coast of the island named Exuma in The Bahamas.
Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-12 mission happened at 6:21 p.m. EST (2321 UTC) on Tuesday, Feb. 18. This was SpaceX’s 21st orbital launch attempt of the year.
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