{"id":10025,"date":"2024-08-31T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-21-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-return-to-flight-mission\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T12:37:00","slug":"spacex-launches-21-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-return-to-flight-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-21-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-return-to-flight-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 return to flight mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67221\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67221\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_Starlink_8-10_launch_MC-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_Starlink_8-10_launch_MC-1.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_Starlink_8-10_launch_MC-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_Starlink_8-10_launch_MC-1-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_Starlink_8-10_launch_MC-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the skies above Florida\u2019s Space Coast during the Starlink 8-10 mission. This was SpaceX\u2019s return to flight mission, following a failed booster landing on Wednesday. Image: Michael Cain\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update 4:04 a.m. EDT: SpaceX launched the mission and landed its first stage booster on its droneship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions.\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>After shuffling the launch schedule a bit, SpaceX &nbsp;kicked off back-to-back launches from both coasts in the span of a little more than an hour. The company first launched the Starlink 8-10 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, before it launched another flight of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>The launch will add another 21 Starlink satellites to SpaceX\u2019s growing megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) happened at 3:43 a.m. EDT (0743 UTC), the end of the Saturday launch window.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JID7_Fir1kY?si=VJ2uVzlw6qvs8E-z\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, tail number B1069 in the SpaceX fleet, launched for an 18th time. It previously launched SpaceX\u2019s 24th Cargo Resupply Services (CRS-24) mission to the International Space Station, Eutelsat\u2019s HOTBIRD-F1 satellite and 13 previous Starlink missions.<\/p>\n<p>About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1069 landed on the SpaceX droneship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions.\u2019 This was the 90th landing for JRTI and SpaceX\u2019s 342nd droneship landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>Shifting around in launch times early Saturday morning moved this launch into the position of being SpaceX\u2019s return to flight mission. This follows a short period during when the Falcon fleet was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) due to a failed booster landing attempt on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Back to flight (again)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While SpaceX was temporarily grounded from launching its Falcon 9 rockets, this go around was dramatically shorter than the paused caused by an upper stage anomaly in July, which lasted about two weeks. SpaceX was grounded for just a couple of days after one of its boosters, B1062, failed to land safely amid the Starlink 8-6 flight on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The landing failure was the first misfire in this way since the Starlink L19 mission in February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of the anomaly during the Starlink Group 8-6 mission remains open, provided all other license requirements are met,\u201d the FAA said in a statement on Friday. \u201cSpaceX made the return to flight request on Aug. 29 and the FAA gave approval on Aug. 30.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I1Qaz8KnsbE?si=-t6VdHEbE3_pNz9g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX wasted no time in getting back to the launchpad. In the hours following the FAA\u2019s statement, the company announced plans to launch the Starlink 9-5 and 8-10 missions from VSFB and Cape Canaveral Space Force Stanton respectfully.<\/p>\n<p>The former of those two was originally billed as the second act of back-to-back scheduled launches on Wednesday. However, after the booster landing anomaly, SpaceX decided to hold off on launching the Starlink 9-5 flight.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is also trying to determine when next it can attempt the launch of its next Crew Dragon mission: Polaris Dawn. On Thursday, SpaceX said it was still working to identify a launch date that would have a favorable weather setup for a splashdown off the coast of Florida about five days after launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the skies above Florida\u2019s Space Coast during the Starlink 8-10 mission. This was SpaceX\u2019s return to flight mission, following a failed booster landing on Wednesday. Image: Michael Cain\/Spaceflight Now Update 4:04 a.m. EDT: SpaceX launched the mission and landed its first stage booster on its droneship, \u2018Just Read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[318,479,316,440,1312],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-faa","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-8-10"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}