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SpaceX launches 50 Starlink satellites, lands rocket on ship at sea
It was SpaceX's eighth launch of 2022.
SpaceX launched 50 Starlink internet satellites and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (Feb. 25).
A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 50 Starlink internet spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today at 12:12 p.m. EST (1712 GMT; 9:12 a.m. local California time).
A little less than nine minutes later, the Falcon 9's first stage came back down to Earth for a vertical touchdown on Of Course I Still Love You, a SpaceX droneship that was stationed several hundred miles off the California coast.
4th landing for this particular booster
List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters - Wikipedia
| 21 November 2020 | F9-099 | N/A | Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich | Success (4E) | Success (LZ-4) | Landed on OCISLY |
| 26 May 2021[76] | F9-119 ♺ | 186 days | Starlink × 60 (v1.0 L28) | Success (40) | Success (JRTI) | |
| 24 November 2021[77] | F9-129 ♺ | 182 days | DART | Success (4E) | Success (OCISLY) | |
| 25 February 2022 | F9-142 ♺ | 93 days | Starlink × 50 (Group 4-11 53.2° inclination) |
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