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Another SpaceX launch was completed on Friday, with yet another Starlink mission completed successfully.
On Friday, March 24 at 11:33 a.m. ET, the company’s Falcon 9 rocket launched 56 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
This was the tenth launch and landing for this Falcon 9 first stage booster, which previously launched CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat 5B, Crew-4, CRS-25, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G, mPOWER-a and now three Starlink missions.
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship pic.twitter.com/34f8zYCKbz
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 24, 2023
The news comes after CEO Elon Musk announced some testing and issues with the company’s new V2 mini Starlink satellites, and after the said announcement of multi-billions in funding from Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
Watch SpaceX’s full live stream of the Starlink mission launch and its subsequent landing of the Falcon 9 booster below.
