SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites on 100th Falcon 9 flight

Nov 25, 2020 | Daily Space, Rockets, Spacecraft, SpaceX

CREDIT: SpaceX

The 100th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket took place at 02:13 UTC on November 25th from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It also marked another couple of firsts: the seventh use of a Falcon 9 first stage and the first time SpaceX has launched four times in one month.

The first stage, B1049.7, successfully landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You just under nine minutes after launch. This marks the 67th successful landing of a Falcon 9.

It successfully deployed its payload of sixty Starlink satellites into orbit around fifteen minutes after launch. This was the 23rd SpaceX launch of 2020.

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SpaceflightNow article 

Space.com article 

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