SpaceX Starlink mission sets new Space Coast record of 73 rocket launches in a single year
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- Oct 26, 2024
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Rocket photography:FLORIDA TODAY's 2025 Space Launch Calendar is here
Looking ahead, a similar SpaceX Starlink mission Wednesday is slated as the Space Coast's 74th rocket launch. Though SpaceX officials have not publicly announced this mission, the company is targeting a 4½-hour window from 5:10-9:40 p.m. to send up another Falcon 9 from LC-40, a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory shows.
FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage will kick off about 90 minutes before Wednesday's liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
Saturday's unprecedented 73rd annual launch concurred with the four-year anniversary of the Starlink satellite high-speed internet service gaining its first paying customer.
"Since then, we have connected 4M+ people, businesses and other organizations with high-speed internet all across the world, and for the first time 4 astronauts flying around it," Starlink officials said in a Saturday tweet, referring to the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission that launched last month from KSC.
The growth of SpaceX's Starlink has fueled the Florida launch rate.
Saturday's record-setting mission marked the Falcon 9 first-stage booster’s 19th flight, SpaceX reported. This much-traveled booster previously launched OneWeb 1, SES 18+19, Eutelsat HOTBIRD-F1, CRS-24 and 14 Starlink missions.
Following stage separation, the booster landed on the SpaceX drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles northeast of the Cape.
For the latest news and launch schedule from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, visit floridatoday.com/space.
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