On Wednesday, August 27 at 7:10 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 28 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photos captured by Satnews.
This was the 400th successful droneship landing for SpaceX. The company’s first droneship landing occurred during the launch of NASA’s CRS-8 cargo mission to the International Space Station in April 2016.
This was the second flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which has now launched two Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.