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SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Sunday night (April 28).
The Starlink spacecraft lifted off a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 6:08pm EDT (2208 GMT).
Related: Starlink satellite train: How to see and track it in the night sky
To plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth for a vertical landing about 8.5 minutes after launch. He touched the droneship Just Read the Instructions, which was located in the Atlantic Ocean.
It was the 13th launch and landing for the booster, according to SpaceX’s mission description. Half of the rocket’s previous 12 flights were Starlink missions.
Meanwhile, the Falcon 9’s upper stage is expected to deploy the 23 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) about 65 minutes after liftoff.
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Sunday’s launch was part of a busy weekend for SpaceX. The company launched two of Europe’s Galileo navigation satellites on Saturday (April 27). The liftoff was the 20th for that Falcon 9’s first stage, tying SpaceX’s reuse record.
SpaceX’s Dragon robotic cargo 30th mission to the International Space Station for NASA also ended on Sunday. The company’s Dragon capsule left the orbiting laboratory around 1:10 pm EDT (1710 GMT), bringing scientific samples and experiments down to Earth.
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