On Wednesday, October 29 at 12:35 p.m. ET, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 29 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbitto join the Starlink Constellatio from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photos captured by Satnews.
This was the 15th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-8, Polaris Dawn, CRS-31, Astranis: From One to Many, IM-2, Commercial GTO-1, and now nine Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.