SpaceX has broken its rocket reuse record again, notching a nice round number in the process.<\/p>\n
A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center<\/a> in Florida on Thursday (Aug. 28) at 4:12 a.m. EDT (0812 GMT), carrying 28 of SpaceX’s Starlink<\/a> internet satellites toward low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It was the 30th liftoff for this Falcon 9’s first stage, which carries the designation 1067. The booster aced its 30th landing as well, coming down at sea on the SpaceX<\/a> drone ship named “A Shortfall of Gravitas” about 8.5 minutes after launch on Thursday as planned.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Previous Booster 1067 missions<\/p>\n Such extensive reuse is a core part of SpaceX’s vision to make spaceflight cheaper and more efficient. And the company aims to take reuse to even greater levels with its next vehicle, a giant rocket-spaceship combo called Starship<\/a>.<\/p>\n Each first stage of Starship, which SpaceX is developing to help humanity settle the moon and Mars<\/a>, could theoretically launch, land and fly again in less than an hour, company founder and CEO Elon Musk<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n If all goes according to plan on Thursday’s flight, the Falcon 9’s upper stage, which is expendable, will deliver the 28 Starlink satellites to LEO about 64 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n They’ll join the biggest satellite network ever assembled; Starlink currently consists of more than 8,200 operational spacecraft<\/a> and is growing all the time, as Thursday’s launch shows.<\/p>\n Booster 1067’s previous flight was memorable as well, and not just because it set a (just-broken) reuse mark. That 29th mission \u2014 a Starlink launch that took place on July 2 \u2014 was also the 500th Falcon 9 flight<\/a> to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX has broken its rocket reuse record again, notching a nice round number in the process. A Falcon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-102859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}