Q&A with Keith Gendreau, principal investigator of the first X-ray space communications experiment (members only)

The Starlink 10-28 mission delivered 28 broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 4:21 a.m. EDT (0821 UTC).

After 24 days at the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship came back to Earth on Sunday with more than 5,400 pounds of cargo, human and animal research specimens, and other gear tagged for the trip home. Release from the station’s robotic arm occurred at 5:11 a.m. EDT (0911 GMT), and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean was a few minutes before 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT).

Wrapping up a two-day chase since launching from Virginia’s Eastern Shore, a commercial Cygnus cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station Monday with more than 7,200 pounds of supplies and experiments, the second freighter to reach the orbiting complex in 15 hours.