SpaceX Launches Starlink Satellites into low-Earth Orbit Beautiful Terminator Sunrise Behind Booster

SpaceX on Friday, May 6 at 5:42 a.m. ET, or 9:42 UTC, Launched a Falcon 9 Rocket with a load of 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched previously launched Crew Demo-2, ANASIS-II, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3, and six Starlink missions. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will returned to Earth and landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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