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excerpts from Spaceflightnow.com:
SpaceX second Starlink launch in 24 hours featured the flight of a Falcon 9 booster for a record-setting 30th time. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center happened at 4:12 a.m. EDT (0812 UTC) Thursday.
The Starlink 10-11 mission placed another 28 Starlink V2 Mini broadband internet satellites into the low Earth orbit constellation and follows a sunrise launch Wednesday from neighboring pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX launched more than 1,800 of these satellites across 74 missions so far in 2025.
SpaceX used its Falcon fleet leader booster for this mission, which has the tail number B1067. It was the first orbital class rocket to fly for a 30th time.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1067 landed on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 122nd touchdown on this vessel and the 495th booster landing to date.
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SpaceX second Starlink launch in 24 hours featured the flight of a Falcon 9 booster for a record-setting 30th time. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center happened at 4:12 a.m. EDT (0812 UTC) Thursday.
The Starlink 10-11 mission placed another 28 Starlink V2 Mini broadband internet satellites into the low Earth orbit constellation and follows a sunrise launch Wednesday from neighboring pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX launched more than 1,800 of these satellites across 74 missions so far in 2025.
SpaceX used its Falcon fleet leader booster for this mission, which has the tail number B1067. It was the first orbital class rocket to fly for a 30th time.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1067 landed on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 122nd touchdown on this vessel and the 495th booster landing to date.
Full story here:
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