“The expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink network of Internet relay satellites continued Monday with a Memorial Day launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.” information Space flights now. The mission added another 29 Starlink satellites to the more than 10,000 already in low Earth orbit:
This was SpaceX’s 60th orbital flight of the year, consisting of 59 Falcon 9 rockets and one Falcon Heavy rocket…
Almost 8.5 minutes after takeoff, [Falcon 9 first stage] B1078 landed on the unmanned ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. This was the 151st landing for this spacecraft and the 614th booster landing to date for SpaceX.
Meanwhile, the second stage extinguished eight minutes and 39 seconds into the flight and entered a coasting phase, before a brief second burn at T+52 minutes. The Starlink satellite stack was deployed 61 minutes and 26 seconds after launch.
On X.com SpaceX shared Images of the rocket booster landing.and a longest video showing Starship’s 12th test flight on Friday.
