SpaceX marched into the new month with a pair of Starlink launches from opposite coasts.<\/p>\n
The company on Sunday (March 1) began with a Falcon 9<\/a> mission rom Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California. The 5:10 a.m. EST (1010 GMT or 2:10 a.m. PST local) liftoff deployed 25 Starlink satellites (Group 17-23<\/a>) into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nearly 12 hours later, at 9:56 p.m. EST (0256 GMT March 2), another Falcon 9 carrying 29 Starlink satellites (Group 10-41<\/a>) launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> in Florida.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Both first stage boosters were successfully recovered. Booster 1082 launched from California completed its 20th flight by landing on the droneship “Of Course I Still Love You<\/a>” positioned in the Pacific Ocean. Booster 1078 wrapped its 26th launch on the deck of the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n The launches increased the count of Starlink<\/a> satellites currently in orbit to more than 9,900, according to satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sunday evening’s flight from Florida was SpaceX’s 27the launch of the year and 620th completed mission in its history.<\/p>\n