SpaceX on this afternoon (March 18) launched another batch of its starlink internet satellites to organize from Florida.
A Falcon 9 rocket, including 23 Starlink crafts, including 13, 13 with direct-to-cell capacity, was raised from Cape Canveral Space Force Station at 3:57 pm today at EDT (1957 GMT).
About eight minutes later, the first stage of the rocket touched the SpaceX drone ship “A Short of Gravitas”, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. According to a company, it was the 19th launch and landing for this special booster. Mission details,
The upper stage of Falcon 9 deployed Starlink satellites in low meaning orbit (Leo), about 65 minutes after the lift, SpaceX as today Announced via X,
Those spacecrafts will join the largest constellation ever: SpaceX currently operates about 7,100 starlink satellites in Leo, according to satellite tracker and astrophizist. Jonathan McDowell,
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Starlink launch was not the only action for SpaceX today. The company’s crew -9 Astronaut mission came back to Earth from the international space station and took three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonot home.
Crew -9 Crew Dragon Capsules, called Freedom, planned EDT (2157 GMT) from Florida coast at 5:57 pm.
