
Update 5:42 a.m. EST (1042 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on its droneship.
Against a densely foggy backdrop, SpaceX completed its second Starlink launch of the month, this one from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Starlink 12-3 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) was SpaceX’s 230th orbital launch from that pad. Liftoff happened at 5:15 a.m. EST (1015 UTC) on Tuesday.
SpaceX used the Falcon 9 first stage booster 1069 on this mission, launched for a 21st time. It was previously used on missions like CRS-24, Eutelsat Hotbird-F1 and 16 Starlink flights.
A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1069 landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ marking the 108th booster landing on JRTI and the 404th landing to date.
Onboard the rocket are 21 Starlink satellites, of which 13 have Direct to Cell capabilities.
