Photos: Falcon 9 breaks apart en route to ISS

The Starlink 12-22 mission was the 45 Starlink mission of the year. SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 24 at 1:19 p.m. EDT (1719 UTC).

A U.S.-built, Bulgarian-owned broadcast satellite will launch in mid-June from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a previously-used SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that first flew in January, officials said Friday.

The first launch from Cape Canaveral this year placed into orbit an Indonesian communications satellite, a privately-funded Israeli moon lander, and an experimental space surveillance microsatellite for the U.S. Air Force.