KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Space Coast on Sunday night in another Starlink mission.
The launch sent 21 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
This launch is expected to be the 10th flight for the first-stage booster used in the mission, which was previously used to launch SES,22, ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1, Hispasat Amazonas Nexus mission, CRS-27, and five other Starlink missions.
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After stage separation, the booster landed on the Just Read The Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship pic.twitter.com/oLysbrAl9e
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 4, 2023
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