SpaceX Launches Starlinks from East Coast, 10th Rideshare Mission from West Coast On Same Day Written 7 March 2024
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Transporter-10 mission at 5:05 p.m. ET on March 4, 2024 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. | Credit: VideoFromSpace; YouTube Framegrab
Aviation Week reports, “SpaceX completed a pair of overlapping Falcon 9 missions on March 4.” One mission launched 23 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida, while another, Transporter-10, launched from the West Coast on a mission to deploy rideshare satellites. According to the report, “the launches occurred at 5:05 p.m. and 6:56 p.m. EST from Vandenberg’s SFB’s Space Launch Complex 4 East and Cape Canaveral SFS’s Space Launch Complex 40, respectively.”
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Transporter-10 rideshare mission
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SpaceX Starlink 143 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 4 March 2024
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