A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload a of Starlink satellites for a high-speed low earth orbit internet constellation, lifts off from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, July 17, 2022. launched its latest batch of Starlink communication satellites into low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday evening.
Its job done, the first-stage booster descended while being guided by short rocket bursts and then landed precisely in the middle of"Thirteen times up. 13 times down," a live SpaceX commentator said of the rocket booster 1076 on the 13th time that reusable booster has sent a Falcon 9 to space. This was the 43rd launch of a Falcon 9 rocket in 2024 and the mission, called Starlink 6-54, was the 29th launch of Starlink satellites this year., and SpaceX has said it aims to have 42,000 satellites in a"mega-constellation." Sunday's deployment of 23 will add to the roughly
The Sunday launch was the second in under 12 hours from Florida. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 on Saturday night, delivering a cluster of European Space AgencyThe Galileo satellites provide global positioning services which are compatible with U.S. GPS systems, but also provide service to Russia's global navigation system.
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