SpaceX F9 - Starlink Group 4-10 - SLC-40

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Launch Date: March 9
Launch Window: 8:45am EST (5:45am PST, 13:45 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS - ASOG
Booster: B1052-4
Fairings: New!
Mass: 48 satellites - 13.7 tonnes
Orbit: LEO

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 40th group of satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink 4-10.

If successful, this will be SpaceX's 10 launch this year. This is SpaceX's 143rd F9 launch.

 

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Pushed out a day.

 

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webcast:

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1501557402239336448

 

[MyJoule]

I've said it before but I'll say it again, It never gets old watching this. I thought maybe they lost the 1st stage this time since they didn't say "1st Stage Landing confirmed" until long after it actually landed, and the video broke up as it was landing. But at the end of the broadcast both the first stage was shown on the drone ship and the call out was made

 

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Complete success for everything except deployment - again! Deployment happens a little later and it's the easy part.

"Time to let the American broomstick fly and hear the sounds of freedom"

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1501575061949628427

 

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Russian space agency chief Rogozin, last week: "In a situation like this we can't supply the United States with our world's best rocket engines. Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don't know what."