(Cape Canaveral, Florida) SpaceX launched another group of Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 late in the evening on October 21st aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch was the 150th SpaceX launch from SLC-40, and the 58th this year from Florida’s Space Coast — setting a new record for the combined facilities of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The flight was the fourth for Falcon 9 Booster 1080. It was used previously for the crewed Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope and Starlink Group 6-11. Roughly eight-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, the booster safely landed on the droneship, “A Shortfall of Gravitas.”
