SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites, Falcon 9 Streak Seen Over Pennsylvania
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Updated · WGAL Susquehanna Valley Pa. · Aug 25
SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites, Falcon 9 Streak Seen Over Pennsylvania
3 articles · Updated · WGAL Susquehanna Valley Pa. · Aug 25
Summary
A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 5:33 a.m., sending 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit as viewers across south-central Pennsylvania photographed the bright trail.
The mission used a reusable first-stage booster on its 37th flight, and that booster landed on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic after stage separation.
Viewer images from the Susquehanna Valley added Pennsylvania to a broad East Coast viewing footprint already reported from the Washington region and North Carolina.
Falcon 9 is SpaceX’s reusable two-stage workhorse for orbital missions, a design the company says helps cut launch costs by flying major components again.