One other Starlink launch is now within the file books.
SpaceX on Sunday (Jan. 18) despatched a brand new batch of 29 Starlink satellites (Group 6-100) into low Earth orbit. At 6:31 p.m. EDT (2331 GMT), the corporate launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station in Florida.
The launch marked the twenty fourth profitable re-flight of the Falcon 9’s first stage (B1080). The booster carried out a propulsive touchdown, touching down on its 4 deployed legs atop the droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” stationed within the Atlantic Ocean.
The ever-growing Starlink megaconstellation now numbers greater than 9,500 lively satellites, in accordance with tracker Jonathan McDowell. The community supplies web entry to areas world wide the place others technique of connecting is sparse. The service additionally helps wifi on airways and direct cell-to-satellite requires choose suppliers.
Sunday’s launch marked SpaceX’s eighth launch of 2026 and 591st Falcon 9 mission since 2010.
