SpaceX Falcon Reaches 700 Missions as Final Three O3b mPOWER Satellites Deploy
SpaceX completed Falcon's 700th mission by deploying the final three spacecraft in SES's initial O3b mPOWER constellation after B1080 landed from its 29th flight.
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SpaceX completed Falcon's 700th mission by deploying the final three spacecraft in SES's initial O3b mPOWER constellation after B1080 landed from its 29th flight.
SpaceX's next Falcon 9 mission will carry the final three O3b mPOWER satellites together, completing the launch manifest for SES's initial 13-spacecraft MEO constellation.
SpaceX's final planned Falcon 9 Starlink mission from Florida deployed 29 satellites while booster B1067 completed a record 37th flight. California Falcon launches continue as Florida waits for Starship.
SpaceX sent BlueBird 11, 12, and 13 into orbit from Cape Canaveral, then recovered the Falcon 9 booster after its 30th flight.
SpaceX is targeting Falcon 9 liftoffs from California and Florida less than six hours apart, with 53 Starlink satellites and two veteran boosters in the plan.
SpaceX turned a routine Starlink batch into another reuse record Thursday morning, flying its most-traveled Falcon 9 booster, B1067, for the 36th time on the Starlink 10-42 mission from Cape Canaveral.
On the Starlink 10-50 flight, the first stage did more than fly and land. It carried two Besxar semiconductor pods on a quick round trip to the edge of space, opening a second lane for reusable rockets.
A morning Falcon 9 sent 24 Starlink satellites toward orbit, and SpaceX queued up a 7.5-ton SiriusXM satellite from Cape Canaveral for after dark the same Sunday.
A flat, disc-shaped capsule called Starfall is set to fly from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, and it could rewrite how cargo comes home from orbit.