SpaceX Sets Record Launch Pace with Three Falcon 9 Launches in Two Days Written 20 June 2022
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 53 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, June 17, 2022. | Credit: SpaceX; YouTube; framegrab
Florida Today reports SpaceX successfully launched three separate Falcon 9 missions in less than 48 hours, starting Friday and wrapping up early Sunday morning. The “launch-packed weekend got started with a Friday liftoff of Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center,” with 53 additional satellites placed into orbit. A Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Saturday at 7:19 a.m. PT, “with a German defense satellite labeled SARah-1.” At 12:27 a.m. ET Sunday, a Falcon 9 “bolted off the pad at Launch Complex 40” at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, delivering to orbit a “Globalstar FM15, a communications satellite for Louisiana-based Globalstar.” All three launches included successful booster landings. The article notes that “SpaceX said the accomplishment was a record for the company that has flown 160 Falcon 9 missions to date.”
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Starlink Mission, June 17, 2022
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SARah-1 Mission, June 18, 2022
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Globalstar FM15 Mission, June 19, 2022
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