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Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX started a batch of 21 Starlink internet satellites by Floridas Space Coast on Sunday evening (March 2).
The Falcon 9 rockets that flies the mission was canceled at 9:24 a.m. ET (0224 GMT on March 3.) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and with the mission of Starlink 12-20-inch with direct functional function-BIS Low Earth Orbit.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 returned a little more than eight minutes after withdrawing to earth. The booster, which is known under the name B1086, landed in the Atlantic on SpaceX ‘Droneship “Just Read the Instructions”, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off the coast of Florida. However, this booster was lost shortly after landing.
For the fifth time, the SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster B1086 ends up on the instructions that the instructions in the Atlantic in the Atlantic, March 2, 2025 Credit: SpaceX
Booster 1086 missions:
Goes-U | Maxar 3 | 3 Starlink missions
“After the successful landing, a non-nominal fire at the back of the rocket damaged one of the booster landing legs, which caused it to overturn,” wrote SpaceX in a mission description. “Although the team is disappointing to lose a rocket after a successful mission, it will use the data to make Falcon even more reliable when climbing and landing.”
This was the fifth and last start for the B1086 booster, which flew three earlier Starlink missions as well as the missions of Goes-U and Maxar 3.
Meanwhile, the upper stage of Falcon 9 continued its promotion to the orbit, where he used the 21 Starlink satellites about 65 minutes after the upswing.
The new stack of starlinks contributes to SpaceX’s growing mega-based broadband satellites, which are intended to offer high-speed internet access all over the world.
In this start, SpaceXs 26. Falcon 9 mission from 2025, 19 of which 19 are dedicated to the company’s Starlink network. SpaceX currently has more than 7,000 operative Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit, according to a database that the astronomer Jonathan McDowell has created that regularly follows the Starlink constellation.
