Update 12:10 a.m. (0510 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’
Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, SpaceX launched its lates batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites on the Starlink 6-76 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 11:41 p.m. EST (0441 UTC on Nov. 27). The rocket flew fly in a south-easterly trajectory once it left the pad.
As was the case with the Starlink 12-1 mission Monday morning, the Tuesday night launch lifted off under pristine weather conditions. Ahead of the mission, the 45th Weather Squadron forecast a greater than 95 percent chance of good liftoff weather with no concerns being tracked.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, B1078 in the SpaceX fleet, launched for a 15th time. It previously supported the launches of Crew-6, USSF-124 and 10 previous Starlink missions.
A little more than eight minutes after launch, B1078 landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’ This marked the 87th booster landing for ASOG and the 375th booster landing to date.
