BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – SpaceX broke a record with its 73rd launch of the year from Florida’s Space Coast with a successful liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 5:47 p.m., breaking the record of 72 launches, which was set last year and recently tied.
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In a release, SpaceX officials said that the launch will bring 22 more Starlink satellites into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
This is the 19th flight for the first-stage booster used in this mission, which was previously used to launch OneWeb 1, SES 18+19, Eutelsat HOTBIRD-F1, CRS-24, and 14 other Starlink missions.
Following stage separation, the first stage is set to land on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.