SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites

Fans of space have just been starved for action by repeatedly scrubbing and postponing three major missions over the past several weeks. But as early as Tuesday, SpaceX ended the line Became known as #Scrubtober (Hashtag formerly known as #scrubber) With 60 new launches and deployments Starlink satellites From Cape Canaveral by Falcon 9 rocket.

This Starlink mission was the overall third flight of the Falcon 9 rocket booster. Sent it Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behankan are in orbit May and then Launched South Korean satellite In July. So far, SpaceX has managed to launch and land the same rocket Six times.

You landed again on Course I Still Love You in the Atlantic about 8.5 minutes after the Falcon 9 first stage release on Tuesday. SpaceX also reported that it had caught at least one of the Faring Half flying over the previous two missions.

The launch, originally scheduled for September, was postponed several times, including twice last week, due to heavy clouds in one case and a failed ground sensor in another. Monday’s scrub was again blamed on the weather.

The second The SpaceX mission is to launch the US Space Force GPS satellite It has also been scrubbed several times on recent Fridays. Meanwhile, The United Launch Alliance is trying to get one of its Delta IV heavy rockets Land closed after August, but delayed at least six times.

Musk expressed his clear disappointment with a series of scrubs last week.

“We’ll need a lot of improvements to get a chance to complete 48 launches next year!” Kasturi tweeted on Friday.

Kasturi is definitely happy to see that the scrubber spell is broken. This is the 13th Starlink mission so far and SpaceX is planning on more than a dozen as its broadband mega-star grows.