SpaceX breaks the Launchpad turnaround record with Midnight Starlink Flight – SpaceFlight now
Continuing to repel the limits of Rapid Reutialization, SpaceX established a new recovery record of Launchpad during the prevention hours on Saturday when she launched her last Falcon 9 rocket.
The mission, nicknamed Starlink 10-34, exploded on the cushion at 12:26 p.m. HAE (0426 UTC), over two days, eight hours, 31 minutes and 10 seconds after the launch of the Starlink 10-16 mission on June 25.
This broke the previous record set by SpaceX in March almost 30 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD85NPVKWPK
SpaceX managed to launch its 27 mini-satellites Starlink V2 at the start of the launch window early in the morning, despite bad weather that crossed the Florida space coast on Friday evening before the launching.
SpaceX used the first-stage Falcon 9 first-stage booster with the B1092 tail number to launch the Starlink 10-34 mission, which has stolen for the fifth time. His previous missions were:
- Starlink 12-13
- NROL-69
- CRS-32
- GPS III SV08
A little more than eight minutes after takeoff, B1092 landed on the drone, “a lack of gravity”. It was the 115th hit on this ship and the 469th Booster Landing to date.
SpaceX has another Falcon 9 launch scheduled for Saturday June 28, which is the Starlink 15-7 mission. This will be launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base with a planned takeoff of 9:47 PDT (12:47 HAE, 1647 UTC).
The launch of Saturday morning was the 497th Falcon 9 Vol to date, to come on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the seventh commercial mission for the company’s commercial replenishment (CRS-7) at the international space station. This mission ended suddenly with an anomaly in flight, but it has led to a notable block upgrade for the Falcon 9 rocket which is still used today.
