Twenty-nine newly-launched Starlink satellites at the moment are in low Earth orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the web broadband relay items lifted off from Area Launch Complicated 40 on the Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida on Tuesday (Dec. 2). The Starlink satellites had been efficiently deployed 1 hour and 5 minutes after the 5:18 p.m. EST (2218 GMT) liftoff.
The Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage, Booster 1077 (B1077), accomplished its ascent after which returned to Earth for a propulsive touchdown on the autonomous drone ship, “A Shortfall of Gravitas,” stationed within the Atlantic Ocean. It was the twenty fifth flight for the rocket, in line with a mission description on SpaceX’s web site.
The Starlink satellites (Group 6-95) joined the greater than 9,100 operational relays forming SpaceX’s megaconstellation.
Tuesday’s launch was the a hundred and fifty fifth Falcon 9 flight of 2025, out of SpaceX’s 160 missions in complete this 12 months (to this point).
