- News
- Spaceflight
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying 23 Starlink satellites on Monday night.
Related: Starlink satellite train: How to see and track it in the night sky
The Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth for a vertical landing about 8.5 minutes after launch.
The 23 Starlink satellites were deployed from the Falcon 9’s upper stage into low Earth orbit (LEO) about 65.5 minutes after liftoff.
SpaceX already has authorization to launch 12,000 Starlink craft into LEO, and it has applied for approval for another 30,000.
Join our Space Forums to keep talking area on the current objectives, night sky and more! And if you have a news idea, correction or remark, let us understand at: community@space.com.
Breaking area news, the current updates on rocket launches, skywatching occasions and more!
Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer withSpace.comand signed up with the group in 2010. He mainly covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military area, however has actually been understood to meddle the area art beat. His book about the look for alien life, “Out There,” was released on Nov. 13, 2018.
The majority of Popular