Falcon 9 on the launch pad ahead of the June 30 Transporter-2 mission. Photo: SpaceX
SpaceX conducted the second mission in its dedicated service on Wednesday afternoon, carrying 88 spacecraft to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).
The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Florida at 3:31 p.m. After stage separation, the booster was recovered for the eighth time. This booster was recovered on land, the first time SpaceX has recovered a booster on land this year.
This mission marked SpaceX’s second launch to polar orbit from Florida. The satellites began to deploy over a series of deployments about an hour into the mission. Deployment sequences ended about 1 hour and 30 minutes into the mission when three Starlink satellites on board were deployed.
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