Photo: Ed Cordero / FMN
SpaceX launched another group of Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit this morning. Liftoff was at 5:13 AM EST from Space Launch Complex 40 from from Cape Canaveral.
Around 8.5 minutes after liftoff, Booster B1067 touched down safely on the company’s drone ship ‘A Shortfall Of Gravitas’ to complete its record-breaking 24th mission successfully, while the second stage and payload continued to low Earth orbit. At about the same time the booster landed, the initial orbit for the payload was achieved, with a short orbit rounding burn just before payload deployment.
B1067 flew today 23 days after its Koreasat 6A mission on November 11, 2024. Its previous flights include the CRS-22 and CRS-25 ISS resupply missions, NASA Crew 3, Crew 4 to ISS, the TelkomSat-113BT, Turksat-5B, Koreasat-6A, Eutelsat HOTBIRD-F2, Galileo L13, mPOWER-A, PSN MFS satellites and now,13 Starlink missions. After landing and mow safely aboard ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, the booster will return to Port Canaveral, where SpaceX will unload it and transport it to their Hangar X facility for inspection and hopefully preparation for its next flight, which would be its 25th.
Launch Replay
Next Launch
SpaceX will shift over to LC-39A to launch the Sirius XM-9 satellite for Liberty Media on Thursday, December 5. The satellite will enhance coverage of the companies satellite radio service.
- Date: NET December 5, 2024
- Organization: SpaceX
- Mission: Sirius XM 9
- Rocket: Falcon 9
- Launch Site: SLC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
- Launch Window: 11:10 AM – 1:10 PM EST
- Payload: Starlink satellites