(Kennedy Space Center, Florida September 3) SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from Pad LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:47 p.m. EDT on September 3, 2023. This mission carried another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit, and it was a record-breaking 62nd orbital launch of the year for SpaceX, breaking last year’s record of 61 launches. As of this date, there have been 46 launches from Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center this year, with all but two coming from SpaceX.
According to a post by Dr. Jonathan McDowell on social media, 5049 Starlink satellites have been launched by SpaceX, 4705 still in orbit, with some 4673 assessed as working as part of the company’s Internet service orbital constellation. McDowell is an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
