{"id":10354,"date":"2023-08-06T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T09:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/falcon-9-chalks-up-new-launch-pad-turnaround-record-on-starlink-launch\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T17:06:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T09:06:33","slug":"falcon-9-chalks-up-new-launch-pad-turnaround-record-on-starlink-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/falcon-9-chalks-up-new-launch-pad-turnaround-record-on-starlink-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9 chalks up new launch pad turnaround record on Starlink launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63114\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230806-Starlink-Quick-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230806-Starlink-Quick-Image.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230806-Starlink-Quick-Image-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Falcon 9 roars away from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Sunday carrying 22 more second-generation Starlink satellites into orbit, breaking a launch pad turnaround record. <\/p>\n<p>The booster, making its fourth flight, lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:41 p.m. EDT (0241 UTC). It was three days 21 hours and 41 minutes since the launch of Intelsat\u2019s Galaxy 37 mission from pad 40. The previous record of 4 days 3 hours and 11 minutes was set less than two weeks ago between Starlink missions 6-6 and 6-7. Sunday\u2019s launch was pushed back from its original time of 9 p.m. EDT (0100 UTC) when the rocket went up right at pad 40 at around 5 p.m. EDT (2100 UTC), which is later than usual. <\/p>\n<p>After lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40, the Falcon 9 headed south-east, targeting an orbit inclined at 43 degrees to the equator. After separating from the second stage about two and a half minutes into flight, booster 1078 arced downrange for a landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which will be stationed in the Atlantic east of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The booster had previously flown the Crew-6, SES O3b mPOWER and the Starlink 4-4 missions. Its last launch was 37 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Two burns of the second stage place the satellites into the required circular orbit. Separation of the 22 satellites occurred about one hour, five minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i7tnTS5NDTg\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was the ninth launch of the so-called V2 mini satellites which are larger and have four times the bandwidth of the previous models. The full-sized V2 Starlink satellites are due to be launched by SpaceX\u2019s fully-reusable Starship vehicle, but the delayed debut of Starship led SpaceX to create a condensed version of the satellites so they could be launched on Falcon 9.<\/p>\n<p>Following the successful conclusion of the Starlink 6-8 mission, based on statistics compiled by Jonathan McDowell, SpaceX has now launched 4,903 Starlink satellites, and the number of Starlink satellites currently in orbit is approximately 4,562.<\/p>\n<p>In early May, SpaceX announced it had more than 1.5 million subscribers to Starlink. The company\u2019s internet service is available in more than 60 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcon 9 roars away from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Sunday carrying 22 more second-generation Starlink satellites into orbit, breaking a launch pad turnaround record. The booster, making its fourth flight, lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:41 [&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":[],"class_list":["post-10354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354"}],"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=10354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}