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SpaceX Starlink 15 launch

 







SpaceX - Falcon 9 / Starlink Mission patch.


Nov. 28, 2020

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch Starlink 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 Starlink satellites (Starlink-16) from  Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on 25 November 2020, at 02:13 UTC (24 November, 21:13 EDT).

SpaceX Starlink 15 launch & Falcon 9 first stage landing, 25 November 2020

Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage (B1049) landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. 

Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the 16th batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink V1.0-L15. Delayed from October and Nov. 21. Scrubbed on Nov. 22. Delayed from Nov. 23.

Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported six other missions: the Telstar 18 VANTAGE mission in September 2018, the Iridium-8 mission in January 2019, and four Starlink missions in May 2019, January 2020, June 2020, and August 2020.

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Images, Video. Text, Credits: SpaceX/SciNews/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.

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