Photo: Charles Boyer / Talk of Titusville
SpaceX successfully launched another 23 Starlink satellites to orbit this evening from their Space Launch Complex 40 facility to finish out a record-breaking month of May with fourteen launches in total. Liftoff was at the end of the launch window at 10:37 PM EDT.
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Around 8.15 minutes after liftoff, the first-stage booster used for the mission, tail number B1076, touched down safely on ASDS ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, stationed downrange in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas. After landing, B1076 has now flown fourteen successful missions. ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ will now return to Port Canaveral, where the booster will be unloaded, transported to SpaceX’s Hangar X facility at Kennedy Space Center and prepared for its next flight after inspection and refurbishment.
Launch Replay
Payload
This evening’s payload was another 23 Starlink satellites that will join SpaceX’s constellation in low-Earth orbit.
Booster B1076.10 Record
The booster used this evening successfully completed its fourteenth flight.
Next Launch
Boeing’s Starliner is scheduled to launch on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Space Launch Complex 41 early tomorrow afternoon.
- Date: NET June 1, 2024
- Organization: NASA / Boeing / ULA
- Mission: CST-100 Starliner Crewed Flight Test
- Rocket: Atlas V
- Launch Site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Launch Window: 12:25 PM EDT (instantaneous window)
- Payload: Starliner, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard.
Keep in mind that launch dates and times change often. Launch attempts can be scrubbed anytime due to weather, technical reasons, or range conditions.