🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starlink 12-17

SpaceX launch of a batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation. Includes a mix of 13 Direct to Cell and 8 normal v2-mini satellites.

Mission: F9 launch of 8 Starlink v2 Mini and 13 Starlink Direct to Cell satellites
Launch location: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Earth.
Target orbit: Low-Earth Orbit (LEO); 284x292km 43º orbit
Booster: B1083-10; 43d 5h 7min 50s turnaround
Booster history: Crew-8, SL 6-48, SL 6-56, Polaris Dawn, CRS-31, SL 6-65, Astranis From One to Many, SL 13-1, IM-2.
Booster recovery: A Shortfall Of Gravitas (ASOG)
Fairing recovery: Doug
Rocket trajectory: Southeast passing northeast of the Bahamas
Payload mass: Approximately 15 tonnes
Stubby nozzle: NO (thankfully)
Stats:
· SpaceX's 43rd launch of the year and 5th launch of the month
· Falcon 105th launch since the last failure, F9's 456th orbital flight.
· SpaceX's 107th launch from LC-39A.
· 104th landing on ASOG out of 105 attempts.
· 89th successful landing by a Falcon booster since the last failed one.
· 247th launch dedicated to Starlink

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[WilboBaggins-dmub]

wow the video at 2m plus...you guys continue to improve

[xangiexdx]

I missed this 😤
I got a notification you were going live in half an hour & I requested a notification for when you actually went live, but I got nothing 🫤 Thanks YouTube 🙄

[raymondsanchez]

Waiting for tonight's Launch from Florida in Parlier, California .

[JuanJuan-tf]

It was seen on Apatzingán Michoacan I saw it here in Mexico

[jessicavalcanti]

Eu assisti o lançamento. Foi espetacular!!

[WilboBaggins-dmub]

Was it Max that said this feels special? They all are.

[scottymoondogjakubin]

I can see the deployment of starlink satillites from vandenberg just south of lake michigan ! Its like clockwork ! Unless its cloudy !

[JustinTheDrummer-WDJJB]

When is the Next Launch 🚀 from Orlando??

[nufan]

Was this rocket headed east or west tonight?

[lwmarkgraal]

1:01:56 ummm why is it going horizontal??? Or am I seeing it wrong???

[lwmarkgraal]

1:09:05 why is the edge of the moon look it’s waves like it looks like a hologram
Weird