SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 6-32, 12-23-2023

SpaceX launched a record-breaking mission shortly after midnight this morning at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station when it lofted 33 Starlink satellites to orbit in a mission the company designated Starlink 6-32: it flew a Falcon 9 booster successfully for the 19th (and ultimately, the last) time.

While Booster 1058 did land successfully on the automated droneship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ northeast of the Bahamas, it could not be secured and toppled over some time after it landed. It was heavily damaged and returned to port looking like a total loss.

Booster 1058 has a long list of flights and is an integral part of NASA and SpaceX history: on its first flight, Booster 1058 launched Demo-2 on May 30, 2020, which was NASA’s first crewed flight launched from American soil since the Space Shuttle mission STS-135 departed Kennedy Space Center in 2011. Since then, the booster has carried South Korea’s first military satellite, Anasis-11, the ISS resupply mission CRS-21, Transporter-1 and Transporter-3 rideshare launches, and 13 Starlink missions.


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