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SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on booster s 13th flight
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SpaceX welcomes A Shortfall of Gravitas, shuffles Of Course I Still Love You west
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SpaceX evolving fairing recovery plans, taking advantage of Octagrabber in pursuit of rapid reusability
March 9, 2021
SpaceX set a company record with 25 orbital launches in 2020. All but five of these missions utilized flight proven boosters, and 14 payload fairing halves were re-flown. As the company aims to almost double that cadence in 2021, they’ll continue to rely on their recovery fleet to bring boosters and fairings back to dry land for reuse.
As of late, SpaceX has been pushing their oceangoing fleet to the limit. The company’s pair of drone ships will each return with a booster, only to turn around and leave as soon as possible to sail downrange for the next mission. Their fairing recovery fleet has also been busy, most recently with major hardware changes on the GO Ms. Tree and GO Ms. Chief vessels.
SpaceX successfully launches long-delayed Starlink L-17 mission
March 3, 2021
SpaceX launched the Starlink v1.0 L17 mission with a new batch of Starlink satellites from historic LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center aboard a flight proven Falcon 9 booster Thursday morning. The previous launch attempt on Sunday, February 28 ended in a scrub at T-1 minute 24 seconds.
Falcon 9 launched at 03:24 EST (08:24 UTC) with the booster successfully landing on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You.
The 20th Starlink mission to date, this launch lofted another 60 satellites for SpaceX’s ever-growing Starlink satellite internet constellation.
Due to technical, weather, and droneship-related delays, Starlink v1.0 L17 found itself launching after the L18 and L19 missions. This was the first time that a Starlink mission was launched “out-of-order,” but it was far from a first for spaceflight in general; the Space Shuttle program was frequently filled with seemingly confusing mission nu
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