SpaceX Starlink-24 Launch Succeeds

May 7, 2021 | Daily Space, Rockets, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Starlink

CREDIT: SpaceX

On April 29 at 03:44 UTC, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Booster 1060 took another sixty Starlink satellites to orbit for the Starlink L-24 mission. This marks 1505 Starlink version 1.0 satellites launched, so the first shell of the Starlink constellation is now complete.

For those of you keeping score at home: this was the seventh mission for this particular booster, and both of the fairings were reused. Booster 1060 successfully landed on the drone ship Just Read The Instructions, and both fairings were recovered from the water and returned to port.

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