SpaceX knocks out sunset Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral
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SpaceX carved out a sunset launch over the Space Coast on Tuesday with its latest Starlink flight.
A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-95 mission with 29 of the company’s internet satellites blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 5:18 p.m.
This was the 25th flight for the first-stage booster, which made a recovery landing downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic.
The mission was the 103rd launch on the Space Coast this year, and second already in December.
All but seven of the launches have come from SpaceX, and the majority of SpaceX launches have been dedicated to proliferating its already massive Starlink satellite constellation.
The company has launched more than 10,000 of the satellites since the first operational mission in 2019, and has more than 9,000 still in service.
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