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JUNE 12, 2023
SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink-87 / Starlink 5-11

Launched: 3:13 AM EDT
Launch site: Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Booster: B1073, 9th Flight
Payload: 53 Starlink satellites

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Booster history: B1073 9th previously Hispasat Amazonas Nexus, SES-22, Hakuto-R M1, CRS-27 and 4 Starlink missions.
Booster recovery: Drone Ship 'Just Read the Instructions' (JRTI)

The launch was the first of two Falcon 9 rockets scheduled to take off Monday, with SpaceX teams at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California preparing a Falcon 9 for liftoff about 14 hours after the flight from Florida at 5:19 p.m. EDT (2:19 p.m. PDT; 2119 UTC). The launch from California will haul a group of 72 small spacecraft and payloads into polar orbit for a range of U.S. and international customers on SpaceX’s eighth small satellite rideshare mission.
SpaceX currently has more than 4,200 functioning Starlink satellites in space
SpaceX has launched more than 3,500 operational spacecraft