SpaceX sent up another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station late Wednesday night despite a series of weather delays.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 of the company’s internet satellites blasted off from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:36 p.m. after the company passed over three earlier opportunities because of stormy conditions on the Space Coast.
Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/beKNtgwhkc
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 17, 2023
The first-stage booster made its 13th flight and SpaceX was able to recover it again on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas downrange in the Atlantic.
It makes the 217th time SpaceX has managed a landing of a booster from either Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rockets.
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship pic.twitter.com/yTu2Riu0Ux
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 17, 2023
This marked the 42nd Space Coast launch of the year, with all but two coming from SpaceX.
It was also the 56th orbital launch for the year for Elon Musk’s company including missions from California, and 255th since his company’s first successful Falcon 1 flight in 2008.
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