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Watch SpaceX launch more Starlink satellites and go for a Falcon 9 re-use record

Watch SpaceX launch more Starlink satellites and go for a Falcon 9 re-use record

4 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/15/watch-spacex-launch-more-starlink-satellites-and-go-for-a-falcon-9-re-use-record/

SpaceX is launching its latest Starlink mission today, with a takeoff time of 9:22 AM EDT (6:22 AM PDT) currently scheduled to take place at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch will carry 60 more Starlink broadband internet satellites to their low Earth orbit destination, using a Falcon 9 rocket with a booster that flew four times previously, including twice in 2018 and twice last year, most recently in November for another Starlink mission.

This launch will include a landing attempt for the Falcon 9 booster, meaning if all goes well SpaceX could recover it for a fifth time for an attempt at refurbishment and re-use. Five flights of a Falcon 9 booster would be a record for SpaceX – and the booster that it’s attempting this mission with is already a record-holder, since it achieved SpaceX’s existing high-water mark for re-use with its last November launch.