The drone ship will will return the booster stage to Florida for refurbishment and preparations for a future mission. The landing punctuated the 11th trip to space for this booster, tail number B1058 in SpaceX’s fleet. The Falcon 9’s booster stage nailed its landing on the drone ship, settling onto the football field-size deck of the landing platform nearly nine minutes after launch. Early in the second stage burn, the rocket shed its two-piece payload shroud, which also returned to Earth under parachutes for recovery from the Atlantic Ocean. The second stage, meanwhile, lit its single Merlin engine for a six-minute burn to reach a parking orbit. Moments later, the booster jettisoned from the Falcon 9’s second stage, beginning maneuvers to return to Earth for a landing on SpaceX’s drone ship parked near the Bahamas around 400 miles (650 kilometers) downrange from Florida’s Space Coast. The first stage’s nine engines shut down two-and-a-half minutes into the flight. Within a minute, the Falcon 9 had surpassed the speed of sound as it rocketed through a crystal clear sky. The nine kerosene-fueled engines accelerated the rocket on a trajectory southeast from Cape Canaveral with 1.7 million pounds of thrust. EST (1444:20 GMT) and rumbled away from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, kicking off SpaceX’s seventh mission of 2022. The launch Monday was the first of three SpaceX launches scheduled over the next 10 days for the Starlink internet network, continuing the company’s pace of averaging around one launch per week since the start of the year.Ī 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket ignited nine Merlin 1D engines at 9:44:20 a.m. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Monday from Cape Canaveral with 46 more satellites for the company’s Starlink broadband network, deploying the payloads in a higher orbit than recent flights after atmospheric drag brought down nearly 40 Starlink spacecraft from the previous mission. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography A Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday.
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