On Sunday, February 12 at 12:10 a.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 55 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the company’s 209th overall mission and the 10th mission of this year.
This was the 12th launch and landing for this Falcon 9 first stage booster, which previously launched GPS III Space Vehicle 04, GPS III Space Vehicle 05, Inspiration4, Ax-1, Nilesat 301, and now seven Starlink missions.
The 1st stage booster returned to Earth and successfully landed on the “A Shortfall of Gravitas” droneship, the 160th such landing for SpaceX.
