Brand-New SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches 23 Starlink Satellites to Orbit Written 21 May 2025

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Brand-New SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches 23 Starlink Satellites to Orbit

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on new Falcon 9 rocket. | Credit: VideoFromSpace; YouTube; Framegrab

SPACE reports that SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites late Tuesday night, atop a Falcon 9 rocket that was flying for the first time. Launch took place “from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday (May 20) at 11:19 p.m. EDT (0319 GMT on May 21), carrying 23 of the company’s Starlink broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).”
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on new Falcon 9 rocket
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