Watch SpaceX launch 53 Starlink satellites and land a rocket at sea Tuesday evening
If all goes according to plan, about nine minutes after launch, the Falcon 9's first stage will come back to Earth for a vertical landing on the SpaceX droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.
The Falcon 9 upper stage, meanwhile, will continue powering its way to low Earth orbit, where it will eventually deploy the Starlink satellites about an hour after liftoff. Starlink is SpaceX's internet megaconstellation, which beams broadband service to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Elon Musk's company has alreadyto orbit, but many more will likely go up; SpaceX has permission to loft 12,000 of the craft and has applied for approval to launch 30,000 more on top of that.
Tuesday evening's launch will be the company's 21st Starlink mission of 2022 and its 35th orbital flight of the year overall, adding to a SpaceX record. The company's previous mark for most orbital missions in a year was 31, set in 2021.
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