SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 booster for a record seventh time

SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 booster for a record seventh time

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/spacex-successfully-launches-a-falcon-9-booster-for-a-record-seventh-time/

SpaceX has launched yet another Starlink mission, adding 60 more Starlink satellites to its low-Earth orbit constellation. That’s good news for its efforts to blanket the globe in high-speed broadband, and today’s flight is even better news for its equally important ambition of developing more reusable rocket systems, since the first-stage booster that helped launch today’s Falcon 9 rocket made a record-breaking seventh trip.

SpaceX broke its own reusability records of six flights for a reused first-stage rocket component, and it also recovered the booster with a controlled landing using its drone flight in the Atlantic Ocean, which means it could potentially break this record with yet another future flight for this same booster.