[…] Despite iffy weather odds, SpaceX threaded the needle with a Starlink-laden mission out of storied Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday evening, as it pushed the total number of these flat-packed internet communications satellites orbited since the start of 2024 to just past 1,000. The veteran B1078 booster—flying for her 11th time in a little more than a year—took flight at 1:15 p.m. EDT, kicking off the sixth Falcon 9 launch of June and beginning an anticipated three-day triple-header of missions that will also see another Starlink flight out of Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., and the return of the mammoth Falcon Heavy. […]
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