SpaceX has just launched and land one of its Falcon 9 boosters for a record 22nd fourth dimension .
The Falcon 9 launched from Space Launch Complex 40 ( SLC-40 ) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:14 a.m. ET on Thursday , June 27 . The rocket ’s upper level deploy 23 Starlink satellites to low - Earth arena .
The video below shows the skyrocket climbing toward orbit on Thursday .
Liftoff!pic.twitter.com / GH3FjaqbgG
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About eight minutes after launching , the Falcon 9 supporter made a perfect touchdown on a drone ship waiting in the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Florida .
Falcon 9 lands on the Just Read the Instructions droneship , complete the first 22nd launch and landing place of a booster!pic.twitter.com/8WX1mE4QbH
The book - break in relay link previously launched GPS III Space Vehicle 04 , GPS III Space Vehicle 05 , Inspiration4 , Ax-1 , Nilesat 301 , OneWeb Launch 17 , ARABSAT BADR-8 , and now 15 Starlink foreign mission .
The booster , B1062 , first flew in November 2020 and before today took its most recent flight on May 18 , 2024 . Another lifter , B1061 , train its 21st flight just a few weeks ago , on June 8 , so it could shortly touch B1062 ’s record , though both boosters probably have many more launching and landings left in them .
In a Saint Mark of just how routine the Falcon 9 launch and landings have become for SpaceX , the company ’s hot streams for most of these military mission have dispensed with a commentator , rather carrying only the audio feed from SpaceX ’s mission team .
renovate its rockets for multiple trajectory allows SpaceX to cut costs , thereby open up space to more businesses and organizations matter to in deploying minor satellites or direct research in low - Earth field .
In a more challenging endeavor , SpaceX is also project its next - coevals Starship rocket for reuse . The Starship is the most powerful rocket ever build and has 10 time more poking at launching than the Falcon 9 . The vehicle has vanish four time to date , with each psychometric test improving on the former one . The 5th flight test , however , will be the first to see SpaceX attempt to use its launch tower at Boca Chica in Texasto “ catch ” the Starship ’s first stagecoach , the Super Heavy booster , as it comes in to land shortly after deploy the upper phase to orb .
Whereas the Falcon 9 uses legs to shore upright , the Super Heavy has no legs and so it will rely on mechanical arms on the launching towboat to secure it as it comes home . accomplish this exploit will be a major step toward SpaceX creating a fully recyclable spaceship vehicle , which is expect to one twenty-four hours sway crew and cargo to aloof position , let in the moon and even Mars .
