Twenty-eight extra Starlink satellites are actually in Earth orbit after launching from Florida on Tuesday night time (July 29).
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 11:37 p.m. EDT (0337 GMT on July 30) rom Area Launch Complicated 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. After a 9 minute climb into house, the 28 Starlink broadband web satellites (group 10-29) had been on monitor to be deployed into their meant orbit.
The launch marked the twenty sixth flight of the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage (B1069), which made it safely again to a touchdown on the droneship “Simply Learn the Directions,” which was positioned within the Atlantic Ocean.
The 28 satellites added to SpaceX’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation, which now totals greater than 8,050 lively models (out of the over 9,300 launched since 2018), in accordance with satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.
The launch was SpaceX‘s 96th mission of the yr, of which all however three had been on Falcon 9 rockets. The corporate plans two extra liftoffs this week: one other Starlink mission on Wednesday (July 30) from California and the launch of the Crew-11 astronauts to the Worldwide Area Station on Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Florida.