CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX set off two Falcon 9 rocket launches on Veterans Day.
The first rocket, which carried a Koreasat-6A satellite, lifted off earlier Monday afternoon from the Kennedy Space Center Monday at 12:22 p.m.
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Koreasat is a series of communication satellites from the KT Corporation, a South Korean telecommunications company, bringing broadcasting and telecommunications services.
After the launch, the first stage booster landed at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX says this is the 23rd flight for the rocket booster.
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The day’s second Falcon 9 launch sent 24 more Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Liftoff for that launch went off at 4:28 p.m. — delayed from its original target time of 4:02 p.m.
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This was be the 12th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Euclid, Axiom-2, Axiom-3, Cygnus NG-21, SES 24, CRS-30, and five Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship.
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