SpaceX Launches 52 More Starlink Satellites Written 10 August 2022
SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off with Starlink satellites. | Credit: SpaceX; YouTube; framegrab
Spaceflight Now reports that SpaceX “launched a Falcon 9 rocket and 52 more Starlink internet satellites Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The commercial mission took off bound for low Earth orbit at 10:14 p.m. EDT (0214 GMT).” The Falcon 9 rocket “headed northeast from the Kennedy Space Center, aiming to deliver the flat-packed broadband relay stations to an orbit ranging between 144 miles and 208 miles in altitude (232-by-338 kilometers).”
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SpaceX launches 52 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 9 August 2022 at 10:14 p.m. ET.
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