SpaceX launched 23 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Sunday evening (April 28).
The Starlink spacecraft lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 6:08 p.m. EDT (2208 GMT).
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To plan, the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage returned to Earth for a vertical landing about 8.5 minutes after launch. The plane landed on the “Read Instructions Only” drone, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
This was the 13th launch and landing of the rocket, according to A SpaceX mission description. Half of the rocket's previous 12 flights were Starlink missions.
Meanwhile, the Falcon 9 rocket's upper stage is scheduled to deploy the 23 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) about 65 minutes after liftoff.
Sunday's launch was part of a busy weekend for SpaceX. The company launched two European Galileo navigation satellites on Saturday (April 27). It was the twentieth liftoff of the Falcon 9 first stage, tying SpaceX's reuse record.
SpaceX's 30th robotic Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station for NASA also concluded Sunday. The company's Dragon capsule left the orbiting laboratory at approximately 1:10 p.m. EDT (1710 GMT), carrying samples and scientific experiments to Earth.
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