SpaceX launched its 1,000th Starlink satellite up to now in 2026 with an early morning Falcon 9 rocket launch Tuesday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Starlink 10-24 mission will ship 29 broadband web satellites into low Earth orbit. This was SpaceX’s thirty seventh devoted Starlink mission of the yr and following payload deployment greater than an hour after liftoff, the corporate may have despatched 1,002 satellites to orbit this yr alone.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 occurred at 5:33:10 a.m. EDT (0933:10 UTC). The rocket will fly on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.
The forty fifth Weather Squadron forecast a 95 % probability of favorable climate in the course of the launch window. There was a small probability for interference from thick clouds within the space.
SpaceX launched the mission utilizing the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail quantity 1080. This was its twenty sixth flight following missions, like Axiom Mission 2, Axiom Mission 3, and CRS-30.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1080 landed on the drone ship ‘Just Read the Instructions’ positioned within the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 157th booster touchdown on this vessel and the 598th booster touchdown so far.
