SpaceX launched another set of Starlink Internet satellites from Southern California on Saturday evening (February 22nd).
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 22 Starlink spacecraft was lifted from Vandenburg Space Force Station at 8:38pm (local time or 0138 GMT February 23rd).
As for the planning, the first stage of Falcon 9 returned to Earth about 8 minutes after the lift-off. We landed on the drone ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean, “Of course I still love you.”
This is the 11th launch and landing of this particular booster, and its 8th Star Link mission is generally SpaceX mission description.
Meanwhile, the upper stage of Falcon 9 continued to carry Starlink satellites, which could be deployed about 62 minutes after lift-off, into low Earth orbit (LEO).
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SpaceX has now launched 23 Falcon 9 missions in 2025. Of these, 17 are Starlink flights.
The Starlink MegaconStellation (the largest zero ever built) currently consists of over 7,000 operational spacecraft. According to Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist and satellite tracker.
