Starlink mission marks SpaceX’s 450th flight-proven Falcon booster launched – Spaceflight Now
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
Update Aug. 4, 4:30 a.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its first stage booster on its droneship.
SpaceX passed another milestone in rocket reuse when it launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the overnight hours of Monday, Aug. 4. The mission, dubbed Starlink 10-30, features the company’s 450th launch of a flight-proven booster.
That stat is a combination of both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. SpaceX first reused a Falcon booster with the launch of the SES-10 satellite on March 30, 2017, using the first-stage booster with the tail number 1021. That booster first flew on SpaceX’s eighth Commercial Resupply Services mis...