SpaceX reaches 19 flights with a Falcon 9 booster for a third time with Starlink mission – Spaceflight Now
For a third time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster achieves its 19th flight, tying it as a launch leader. Liftoff on the Starlink 6-42 mission came following a weather scrub on Friday, March 22. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
Update 11:45 p.m. ET: SpaceX launched the Starlink 6-42 mission close to the end of the launch window.
SpaceX managed to thread the needle with the weather and launch the first of two planned Starlink missions from Cape Canaveral in 48 hours. A Falcon 9 rocket launched from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday at 11:09 p.m. EDT (0309 UTC on Sunday). It will be followed by another Falcon 9 from nearby pad 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday.
In a forecast issued by the 45th Weather Squadron on Friday, Space Force meteorologists gav...