{"id":9871,"date":"2025-04-13T19:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-falcon-9-rocket-booster-on-record-setting-27th-time-on-midnight-starlink-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T19:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:33:45","slug":"spacex-launches-falcon-9-rocket-booster-on-record-setting-27th-time-on-midnight-starlink-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-falcon-9-rocket-booster-on-record-setting-27th-time-on-midnight-starlink-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket booster on record-setting 27th time on midnight Starlink flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69338\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69338\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_Starlink_6-73_liftoff_AB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_Starlink_6-73_liftoff_AB-1.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_Starlink_6-73_liftoff_AB-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_Starlink_6-73_liftoff_AB-1-678x452.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_Starlink_6-73_liftoff_AB-1-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on the Starlink 6-73 mission. The flight marked the first time an orbital class rocket launchd for a 27th time in its flight history. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update 12:34 a.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its first stage booster on the droneship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions.\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX notched another new rocket reuse record with its midnight Starlink flight to begin the work week.<\/p>\n<p>Falcon 9 rocket booster, tail number 1067, launched for a record-setting 27th time, further cementing its position as the flight leader among SpaceX\u2019s fleet. It supported the launch of 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites heading into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened Monday, April 14, at 12 a.m. EDT (0400 UTC).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2u4cmabpcpo?si=t18qEYIuzOVcMWsL\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Continuing the trend seen during the Saturday night launch of the Starlink 12-17 mission, launch weather officers with the 45th Weather Squadron forecast a greater than 95 percent chance for favorable weather at liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists forecast the overnight launch opportunity would fit within a stretch of \u201cseveral days of dry weather with seasonable temperatures across the Spaceport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 27th outing for B1067 comes nearly four years after it launched its first mission, CRS-22 on June 3, 2021. It\u2019s three most recent missions were all in support of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellite constellation.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1067 touched down on the droneship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions,\u2019 which marked the 115th landing on JRTI and the 431st booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 6-73 mission was also be the 460th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on the Starlink 6-73 mission. The flight marked the first time an orbital class rocket launchd for a 27th time in its flight history. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now Update 12:34 a.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its first stage booster on the droneship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions.\u2019 SpaceX notched another [&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":[479,316,440,1141],"class_list":["post-9871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-6-73"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871"}],"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=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}