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SpaceX launches another 51 Starlinks to orbit aboard a Falcon 9

September 4, 2022

to orbit

On Sunday, September 4 at 10:09 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 51 Starlink satellites and Spaceflight’s Sherpa-LTC, an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Artistic rendition of Spaceflight’s Sherpa OTV., courtesy of the company.

This was the seventh flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Arabsat-6A, STP-2, COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2, KPLO, and now three Starlink missions.

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