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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 28

Name: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 28
Start: 2021-05-26T18:59:00.000Z
Location: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

SpaceX's 137th launch · 20th this year · humanity's 6,083rd orbital launch attempt

Success90% go

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Window: May 26, 18:59 – May 26, 18:59 UTC

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A batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Communications · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

B1063 · flight 2 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Just Read the Instructions · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich · zone record 156/157

Successful launch of 60 Starlink satellites.
Altrius · 5/26/2021 · source
Weather 90% and GO per NOTAM 05/325.
Nosu · 5/24/2021 · source
Adding launch per launchphotography.com and NOTAM F1576/21.
Nosu · 5/16/2021 · source

394 launches from this pad · 1,122 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA