Approaching the heels of the profitable launch of the four-person Crew-8 mission heading as much as the Worldwide House Station, SpaceX pulled off one other Falcon 9 launch from the Cape. The Starlink 6-41 mission noticed one other batch of 23 web satellites head as much as be part of the rising constellation in low Earth orbit.
Liftoff from House Launch Advanced 40 at Cape Canaveral House Drive Station occurred 6:56 p.m. EST (2356 UTC). The mission rounded out the third Falcon 9 launch in simply over 20 hours throughout the corporate’s three launch pads between Florida and California.
This was the thirteenth launch of the Falcon 9 first stage booster, B1073, within the SpaceX fleet. It landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ a little bit greater than eight minutes into the flight. It marked the sixtieth booster touchdown on ASOG and the 281st total booster touchdown thus far.
Within the midst of the Falcon 9 second stage’s coast part, SpaceX accomplished the deployment of the remaining payloads manifested as a part of the Transporter-10 mission, which launched lower than two hours prior from Vandenberg House Drive Base in California.
As a again drop to each of those, groups with each SpaceX and NASA proceed to observe the well being of the Crew-8 astronauts and cosmonaut in addition to their Crew Dragon spacecraft as its journey to the Worldwide House Station continues. Docking is anticipated early Tuesday morning.
Deployment of @Starlink satellites confirmed. This mission brings us above 10,000 operational house lasers for the constellation, which allow satellites to supply really world protection and serve these in essentially the most distant areas on Earth
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 5, 2024
