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Brett Tingley

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites during 3rd launch in under 24 hours

The plume from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lights up a thick fog as the booster lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, March 4, 2024.

SpaceX is keeping its rapid launch cadence going.

The company launched yet another batch of 23 Starlink internet satellites at 6:56 p.m. ET (2356 GMT) on Monday (March 4) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Some eight minutes after liftoff, the flight's booster returned to the planet, landing on SpaceX's droneship dubbed "A Shortfall of Gravitas." The ship was waiting offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.

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