CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the pre-dawn sky Monday morning, carrying 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida’s Space Coast.
Liftoff occurred at 6:13 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Falcon 9’s first stage booster completed its 35th flight. The booster previously supported high-profile missions, including CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat 5B, Crew-4, CRS-25, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G, SES O3B mPOWER-A, PSN SATRIA, Telkomsat Merah Putih 2, Galileo, Koreasat-6A, along with 24 Starlink missions.
Following stage separation, the booster successfully landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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