Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida on April 12, 2024. It was the record-breaking 20th launch for this particular first-stage booster.Starlink satellite train: How to see and track it in the night sky
If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9's first stage will come back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after launch, landing vertically on SpaceX's Just Read the Instructions droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
This evening's launch will be the 39th orbital mission of the year already for SpaceX, and the 26th of 2024 devoted to building out the Starlink network.operational satellites, and that number will continue growing far into the future. SpaceX has permission to deploy 12,000 Starlink craft in LEO, and it has applied for approval for another 30,000 on top of that.
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