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 SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 booster launches 21 Starlink satellites from Florida
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SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 booster launches 21 Starlink satellites from Florida
 by Allen Cone
 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 15, 2025

SpaceX early Saturday launched another 21 Starlink satellites aboard a record-setting Falcon 9 first-stage booster from Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Liftoff was at 1:14 a.m. from pad 40 with clouds obscuring the rocket.

It was the 27th time this first-stage booster was used. It landed eight later at SpaceX droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas. This was the 98th booster landing on that droneship and the 409th landing for SpaceX.

Previous flights included four Dragon missions to the International Space Station, Galileo L13 and 14 other Starlink missions.

An hour later the satellites, including 13 with direct to cell capabilities, were deployed.

Starlink consists of about 7,000 operational satellites.

The next SpaceX launch, again with a batch of Starlink satellite, is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40. For the first time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to land on a drone ship stationed off the coast of the Bahamas.

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