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SpaceX sent new Starlink satellites into orbit this week. The company used a rocket with a lot of space experience in this operation. The Falcon 9 rocket used by SpaceX to orbit the Starlink satellites went into space for the seventh time and returned.
Taking off from the SpaceX launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, the Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. The rocket’s first stage, carrying the main engine and most of its fuel, made a brief trip into space and returned to earth. The rocket was lowered vertically onto the ramp installed in the Atlantic Ocean.
This Falcon 9 rocket had previously carried two communication satellites into space on two different missions and was used on Starlink missions four times. SpaceX has also used the nose portion of this rocket on different missions before.
SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space for the hundredth time on this mission. While the 23rd Falcon 9 mission was underway in 2020, the number of Falcon 9, which can be lowered vertically from day one, reached 67.
