On October 9, SpaceX successfully launched 21 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base using a Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX Launch Falcon 9 Rocket with 21 Starlink Satellites (Photo: Communications Today)
SpaceX Launch Falcon 9 Rocket with 21 Starlink Satellites
According to KSBY, the Falcon 9 rocket was successfully launched carrying 21 Starlink satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 3:23 a.m.
The launch was streamed via SpaceX’s account on the X app which is formerly known as Twitter, five minutes before the actual liftoff.
The Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth for a vertical landing at sea on the SpaceX drone ship about eight and a half minutes after launch and deployed the 21 Starlink satellites. It is the 14th liftoff and landing of the Falcon 9 rocket.
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21 Starlink Satellites Deployed in Low-Earth Orbit
According to SPACE, the Falcon 9 rocket that was successfully launched carried 21 Starlink Satellites to low-earth orbit about 62.5 minutes after the liftoff of the rocket.
The 21 Starlink satellites launch was supposed to be the second of two back-to-back launches of 21 Starlink satellites, however, one was only successfully launched.
A Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to launch 21 Starlink satellites with an addition of 1 Starlink from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October 8, but got delayed; thus, it will launch again no earlier than Monday, October 9 at 8:42 p.m. ET.
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