Tuesday, January 7, 2020

SpaceX Successfully Launches 60 More Starlink Satellites, As A Dragon Heads Home

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has successfully launched another 60 of its Starlink satellite constellation, sending a previously re-used Falcon 9 into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at 9:19 p.m. EST on Monday evening. The successful launch is part of a plan to put as many as 42,000 satellites into space to provide broadband Internet across the globe In addition to the Starlink launch, this is a busy week for SpaceX--early on Tuesday, another SpaceX spacecraft--a Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station--undocked from the ISS and is expected to land today in a parachute-assisted splashdown.