SpaceX Deploys 24 Starlink Satellites, Landing Falcon 9 Booster for 636th Time
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Updated · Spaceflight Now · Jul 9
SpaceX Deploys 24 Starlink Satellites, Landing Falcon 9 Booster for 636th Time
3 articles · Updated · Spaceflight Now · Jul 9
Summary
24 Starlink satellites were deployed after a Friday night Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, adding to SpaceX’s low-Earth-orbit broadband network.
8:01 p.m. PDT liftoff sent the mission on a south-southwesterly path, using booster B1071 on its 35th flight—one of the company’s most-reused first stages.
More than eight minutes later, B1071 landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific, marking the vessel’s 209th recovery and SpaceX’s 636th booster landing.
The mission expands a Starlink constellation that now includes more than 10,700 spacecraft, underscoring SpaceX’s continued push to scale global internet coverage.