SpaceX added 24 satellites to its Starlink megaconstellation on Sunday (June 21) with a launch from California.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 12:39 p.m. EDT (1639 GMT or 9:39 a.m. PDT native time) from Area Launch Advanced 4 East at Vandenberg Area Pressure Base. SpaceX confirmed deployment of the Starlink batch (Group 17-28) about an hour after their launch.
The Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage (Booster 1063) accomplished its thirty third launch by touchdown on the autonomous droneship “Of Course I Nonetheless Love You” stationed within the Pacific Ocean. The stage is simply two flights shy of the present Falcon 9 reuse report of 35 launches.
Earlier Booster 1063 missions
The Starlink community now has greater than 10,600 lively satellites, in line with tracker Jonathan McDowell. The service supplies worldwide web entry, in addition to inflight wifi and direct to cell connections for choose suppliers.
Sunday;s launch was SpaceX’s 72nd Falcon 9 mission of the yr out of a complete historical past 655 missions.
