SpaceX on Saturday evening (22 February) launched another set of its starlink internet satellites from Southern California.
A Falcon 9 rocket, in which 22 Starlink Spacecraft carrying Wandenberg Space Force Station was removed from EST (5:38 pm local time or 0138 GMT February 23).
As a plan, the first stage of Falcon 9 returned to Earth about eight minutes after the liftoff. It touched the drone ship “of course I still love you,” who was stationed in the Pacific Ocean.
According to the SpaceX mission description, it was the 11th launch and landing for this special booster and its 8th Starlink Mission.
The upper stage of Falcon 9, meanwhile, continued to include Starlink satellites in the low meaning orbit (Leo), where to be deployed about 62 minutes after the liftoff.
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SpaceX has now launched 23 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, out of which 17 are Starlink flights.
According to Astropysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell, Starlink MegaconStellation – the largest assembled – currently involved in over 7,000 operational spacecraft.
