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SpaceX launches 56 Starlink satellites, lands rocket at sea (video)

Space.com

By Mike Wall

March 29, 2023

SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (March 29).

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 56 Starlink satellites lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 4:01 p.m. EDT (2001 GMT). 

The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth as planned, acing a vertical touchdown on the SpaceX droneship Just Read the Instructions about 8.5 minutes after launch.

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