SpaceX successfully launches Italian satellite; lands booster 104th time

[F-22Raptor]

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[Hamartia Antidote]

Amazing..they actually can use the Falcon Heavy side boosters in stand-alone mode.

This launch was using one of the Falcon Heavy side boosters that landed on the Landing Zone 1( LZ-1) pad (versus the middle booster on the drone ship)

List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters - Wikipedia

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11 April 2019	FH-002	N/A	Arabsat-6A[31]	Success (39A)	Success (LZ-1)
25 June 2019	FH-003 ♺	75 days	COSMIC-2 (STP-2)[31]	Success (39A)	Success (LZ-1)
31 January 2022	F9-138	951 days	CSG-2	Success (40)	Success (LZ-1)

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

SpaceX gives converted Falcon Heavy side booster new life – Spaceflight Now

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A converted SpaceX side booster that flew on two Falcon Heavy missions in 2019 will launch again Thursday as the first stage of a single-stick Falcon 9 rocket set to lift off from Cape Canaveral with an Italian radar imaging satellite.