The spacecraft successfully entered Earth’s orbit. This is the second launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle in the last two days.
SpaceX has launched 15 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit. The company announced this on social network X (formerly Twitter) on August 8.
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle took off from the US Space Force Vandenberg Base in California.
Its first stage returned to Earth as scheduled, landing on an unmanned platform in the Atlantic approximately 9.5 minutes after launch.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship pic.twitter.com/fN8mYlWuev
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 8, 2023
Note that this is the second Starlink launch in the last two days. On Monday, 22 satellites successfully entered orbit.
To date, SpaceX has launched more than 4,900 Starlink vehicles into space, more than 4,500 of which are operational.
Watch the Falcon 9 launch 15 @starlink satellites in orbit → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/cvoq0M9UK3
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 8, 2023
In the past, SpaceX successfully launched a heavy Falcon Heavy rocket, which launched the heaviest commercial satellite Jupiter 3 into orbit.
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