CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched early Friday morning from Florida’s Space Coast, taking another batch of 23 Starlink satellites into orbit.
The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:12 a.m., with the first stage of the rocket landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean several minutes later.
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This launch comes nearly a week after SpaceX’s Falcon 9 double-header. The first launch — a EUTELSAT 36D mission — launched Saturday from Kennedy Space Center and the second launch sent a batch of 23 Starlink satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Friday’s launch marked the 14th flight for the first-stage booster used in this mission, which was previously used to launch CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, OneWeb 1, SES-18, SES-19, and nine other Starlink missions.
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