SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites into space from Florida
SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites
SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket into space from Cape Canaveral on Thursday carrying additional Starlink satellites.
PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites from Florida on Thurday night.
SpaceX growing Starlink communications network
The backstory:
A Falcon 9 rocket carried 28 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40).
Following stage separation, the first stage laned on the "Just Read the Instructions" droneship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft vents fuel prior to a scrubbed launch from pad 39A for the Crew-6 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 27, 2023. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP v
This was the 18th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Ax-2, Euclid, Ax-3, CRS-30, SES ASTRA 1P, NG-21 and 11 Starlink missions.
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The Source: This story was written based on information shared by SpaceX on its website.