Falcon 9 launches 22
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the West Coast at 8:11 p.m., along with 22 other Starlink satellites. PST Thursday (11:11 p.m. EST/0411 UTC).
The Starlink 7-15 mission entered a 184-by-178-mile (296-by-287-km) orbit from Space Launch Facility 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, for the first launch opportunity of the day. And headed to the southeast orbit. , inclined at 53 degrees to the equator.
The first stage booster, empennage number 1061, is on its 19th flight, breaking the record set by booster 1058 before it was lost during recovery operations after a successful launch and landing.
Booster 1061 joins the East Coast fleet, launching Crew 1 and 2 missions to the International Space Station. He then flew SXM-8, Cargo Dragon CRS-23, IXPE, Transporter 4, and Transporter 5 missions before moving to the West Coast and undertaking Globalstar FM15, ISI EROS C-3, and Korea 425 missions. It has also flown on eight previous Starlink delivery missions.
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After completing its burnout, the first stage landed on the drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You,” which was deployed about 400 miles (644 km) downstream in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.
In a social media post, SpaceX confirmed the successful deployment of 22 V2 mini Starlink satellites just an hour after launch.
SpaceX announced that its Starlink Internet service has more than 2 million customers in more than 60 countries. Since 2019, Starlink has been launched 5,872 times, according to data compiled after launch by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who maintains the spaceflight database. Of these satellites, 5,480 are in orbit, and 5,442 appear to be operational.
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