SpaceX launches 23 extra Starlink satellites – UPI.com

SpaceX introduced a Falcon 9 in a while after middle of the night Sunday with 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida. Screenshot from SpaceX

Dec. 8 (UPI) — SpaceX early Sunday introduced 23 Starlink spacecraft from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Area Power Station.
The 229-foot tall Falcon 9 rocket introduced from Cape Canaveral Release Complicated 40 at 12:11 a.m. because it lit up the sky.

The primary degree booster landed at the A Shortfall of Gravitas drone send at the Atlantic Ocean 8 1/2 mins later.
This was once the second one time this booster introduced with the NOAA GOES-U satellite tv for pc lifted in overdue June.
At 1:22 a.m., the Starlink satellites had been deployed into orbit, together with 13 with direct-to-cell carrier for cell shoppers.

It was once the 123rd Falcon 9 liftoff of the 12 months.
SpaceX has introduced greater than 80 Starlink missions up to now in 2024.
There are greater than 6,800 operational Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit.
On Wednesday in California, SpaceX marked the three hundredth time SpaceX effectively returned the primary degree of its Falcon 9 rocket within the corporate’s historical past. Starlink Undertaking 9-14 left the Vandenberg Area Power Station with 20 Starlink satellites, together with 13 with direct-to-cell carrier.

“The primary Starlink satellite tv for pc direct-to-cell telephone constellation is now entire,” SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk mentioned by the use of X early Thursday morning. “This may permit unmodified cell phones to have web connectivity in faraway spaces. Bandwidth according to beam is handiest ~10Mb, however long run constellations might be a lot more succesful.”
In all, SpaceX has had 419 general launches with 381 landings.
SpaceX subsequent plans to release mPOWER-E satellites for SES right through a release window from 3:55 p.m. to six:25 p.m. Thursday from Kennedy Area Middle’s Pad 39A.