Falcon 9 Booster Becomes Fourth to Ten Flights

Jan 20, 2022 | Daily Space, Rockets, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Starlink

CREDIT: SpaceX

On January 19 at 02:02 UTC, the Starlink 35 mission launched atop Falcon 9 booster 1060 from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch was yet another use of the relatively new southern launch trajectory, with the Space Launch Delta 45 range operators warning the public before the launch that the exclusion zones for the launch would be different and to stay out. 

This was the tenth launch for Booster 1060, which successfully landed on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas about eight and a half minutes after launch. It joins three other boosters in the ten flights or more club: 1049, 1051, and 1058. Together, these four boosters have flown nearly a third of all Falcon 9 launches. 

Both fairings were reused, each on their second flight. All 49 satellites were successfully deployed into their 53.22-degree inclination orbit fifteen minutes after launch.

More Information

Starlink Mission page (SpaceX via archive.today)

Launch video

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