Saturday at 11:41 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
This was the second flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster, which previously launched CRS-24 and now this Starlink mission
(Falcon is the first orbital class rocket capable of reflight - booster engines and fuel tanks are reused.)
171 TOTAL LAUNCHES | 131 TOTAL LANDINGS | 110 TOTAL REFLIGHTS
Falcon 9 is a reusable, two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond. Falcon 9 is the world's first orbital-class reusable rocket. Reusability allows SpaceX to fly again the most expensive parts of the rocket, recycling and avoiding waste with single flight rockets.