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SPACEX LAUNCHES 46 STARLINK SATELLITES ON APRIL 27 AFTER DELAY

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Liftoff took place at 9:40 a.m. ET on April 27.

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SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites and landed
the returning rocket at sea on Thursday morning (April 27).



A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 46 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from California's
Vandenberg Space Force Base Thursday at 9:40 a.m. EDT (1340 GMT; 6:40 a.m. local
California time) after an abort over rocket landing concerns on April 26. The
mission was also pushed back from April 25. 



The launch took place flawlessly amid heavy fog conditions at Vandenberg.




Related: Starlink satellites: Everything you need to know



A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket hefts Starlinks into orbit amid fog on April 27, 2023.
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The Falcon 9 then came back to Earth for a landing about 8.5 minutes after
liftoff, settling softly onto the deck of the SpaceX droneship Of Course I Still
Love You,  stationed off the California coast. 



The mission was the 13th launch and landing for this particular booster,
according to a SpaceX mission description (opens in new tab). Impressive though
that number is, it falls a bit short of SpaceX's booster reuse record of 15
flights.

The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the 46 Starlink
spacecraft to low Earth orbit, where the Starlinks deployed about 59 minutes
after liftoff.


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Starlink is SpaceX's huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation. It
currently consists of about 4,000 operational satellites, but that number could
eventually balloon to more than 40,000.

Thursday's launch was the 27th mission of the year for SpaceX. The company also
launched a high-profile non-orbital mission last week — the first-ever test
flight of a fully stacked Starship, the giant vehicle that SpaceX is developing
to get people and cargo to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Starship performed relatively well on the debut flight, which lifted off from
SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. The 394-foot-tall (120 meters)
vehicle reached a maximum altitude of 24 miles (39 kilometers) before suffering
several problems that impelled SpaceX to trigger a self-destruct high in the
skies over the Gulf of Mexico.

Editor's note: This story was updated on April 26 to reflect the aborted launch
try and the mission's new target to launch on April 27. The story was updated
once again on April 27 to reflect the successful launch and Starlink deployment.

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about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
Before becoming a science writer, Michael worked as a herpetologist and wildlife
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Australia, a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona, and a graduate
certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. To
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