SpaceX’s fleet-leading Falcon 9 booster made a record-breaking 34th flight Monday on a mission to deploy a batch of 29 satellites for the company’s internet service.
Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida happened at 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 UTC). Forecasters Sunday predicted a 70 percent chance of acceptable weather for launch with violations of the cumulus cloud, surface electric fields, thick cloud layers rules.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster for the mission set a new record for reusability launching for a 34th time. Booster 1076 entered the SpaceX fleet in 2021 and since then has launch missions including CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat 5B, Crew-4, CRS-25, Eutelsat Hotbird 13G, SES O3B mPOWER-A, PSN Satria, Telkomsat Merah Putih 2, Galileo L13, Koreasat-6A Crew-6 and USSF-124, plus 22 batches of Starlink satellites.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1067 landed on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Is there a Spaceflight Now app available from the Apple Store or Google Play? I didn’t see it last time I searched.