SpaceX Launches 22 More Starlink Satellites into Orbit Written 7 August 2023
SpaceX launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit Sunday, August 6, at 10:41 p.m. ET, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. | Credit: SpaceX; YouTube; framegrab
UPI reports that SpaceX successfully “launched a Falcon 9 rocket with another payload of Starlink satellites into space from Florida late Sunday.” The rocket “launched at 10:41 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, sending the 22 satellites into low-Earth orbit where they will join Starlink’s constellation of thousands of orbitals that provide high-speed, low-latency Internet worldwide.” SpaceX Senior Quality Systems Engineering Manager Kate Tice said the weather presented only a “10% of violating our launch commit criteria.” The launch “was SpaceX’s 53rd of the year and 252nd to date.” The first-stage booster “returned to Earth where it successfully landed upon the Shortfall of Gravitas droneship that was awaiting its arrival in the Atlantic Ocean.” Both fairing halves “used in the mission were flight tested, with one half flying its eighth mission and the other flying its 10th.”
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Starlink Mission, August 6, 2023
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