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SpaceX Conducts Bicoastal Falcon 9 Launches, Deploys 54 Starlink Satellites

SPACE reports, “SpaceX marched into the new month with a pair of Starlink launches from opposite coasts.”  The first Falcon 9 launch took place from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 5:10 a.m. EST, resulting in the successful deployment of 25 Starlink satellites (Group 17-23). “Nearly 12 hours later, at 9:56 p.m. EST (0256 GMT March 2), another Falcon 9 carrying 29 Starlink satellites (Group 10-41) launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.”
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SpaceX launches 29 Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral on Falcon 9 rocket. (Launch occurs at the 1:00:16 mark)
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SpaceX Launches 54 New Starlink Satellites into Orbit

CBS News reported that SpaceX “launched its third Falcon 9 rocket in less than two days Saturday, sending 54 Starlink internet satellites into orbit using a recycled first-stage booster which was making its record 15th flight.” This was “also the California rocket builder’s 59th launch so far this year, nearly doubling its 2021 record.” The 54 Starlink satellites “were released in a batch, pushing the total number of Starlink satellites launched to date by SpaceX to 3,612, as SpaceX continues to populate its globe-spanning constellation of laser-linked broadband relay stations.” While “not all of the satellites are still operational or in orbit…space statistician Jonathan McDowell estimates 3,230 were operational going into Saturday’s flight.”
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SpaceX launches 54 Starlink Satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A on Saturday, December 17, 2022, at 4:32 p.m. ET.
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