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from spaceflightnow.com:
The U.S. Space Force launched its final Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite into medium Earth orbit in the predawn hours of Tuesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 2:53:25 a.m. EDT (0653:25 UTC).
SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster B1095, which flew for the seventh time after launching six batches of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites.
A little more than 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1095 landed on the drone ship, Just Read the Instructions. Both halves of the payload fairing were also to be recovered after splashing down a little further downrange than the booster.
The U.S. Space Force launched its final Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite into medium Earth orbit in the predawn hours of Tuesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 2:53:25 a.m. EDT (0653:25 UTC).
SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster B1095, which flew for the seventh time after launching six batches of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites.
A little more than 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1095 landed on the drone ship, Just Read the Instructions. Both halves of the payload fairing were also to be recovered after splashing down a little further downrange than the booster.
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