SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket starts 28 Starlink satellites, aces drroneship booster landing (photos)

SpaceX continues its steady pace of Starlink starts and always grows the company’s orbital internet constellation of the company.

A Falcon 9 Rocket started on Thursday evening, April 24, from SpaceX’s Starlink 6-74 mission by Florida from Floridas Space Coast. The upswing took place at 9:52 p.m. ET (0152 GMT, April 25) from the start complex-40 (LC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The latest additions to SpaceX’s Starlink Megaconstellation towards Low Earth Orbit (Leo), which were driven by the nine Merlin engines of the Falcon 9, stacked 28min in Falcon 9 cladding.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket starts on April 24, 2025 28 Starlink -Breitsband -Satellites by Floridas Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (Credit: SpaceX)

The first stage of the rocket, the tail number B1069, carried out the main engine cutouts and separated from the upper stage of the rocket about 2.5 minutes after the flight.

About six minutes later, B1069 safely landed on SpaceX’s deficiency in Gravitas -DRONSHIP, which was stationed in the Atlantic. This was the 23rd start of B1069 and the 19th Starlink mission of the booster.

Close -up photo of the base of a rocket that shows nine engines that fire when elevator

A close -up of the Falcon 9 engines in the first stage, which shoots on April 24, 2025. (Credit: SpaceX)

The upper stage of the rocket continued with its 28 Starlink satellites in Leo and released it for an hour to escape from the missile’s payload adapter. You will spend the next few days to maneuver in more specific orbits in order to connect SpaceX’s growing megaconal.

An illustration of a rocket that starts on a arc path and then ends up on a flat load barge

Graphics shows the general outline for SpaceX ‘rocket landing on a drunship at sea. (Credit: SpaceX)

The Starlink network from SpaceX consists of more than 7,000 satellites and count. Overall, they work in a network that almost cover the entire planet and apart from the poles. Starlink offers users a high-speed internet connection from anywhere (except the poles), which they are able to direct their Starlink recipient in the sky.

The start on Thursday was SpaceX’s 47th Falcon 9 Mission from 2025 and the 30th Starlink start of the company this year.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket starts 28 Starlink satellites, aces drroneship booster landing (photos)

ByAmelia Journalton

By Amelia Journalton

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