SpaceX Sticks First Falcon 9 Booster Landung on the Bahamas – now Spaceflight

Update February 18, 6:52 p.m. EST (2352 UTC): SpaceX landed his booster on the Bahamas for the first time.

SpaceX achieved another room flight record when he completed the first orbital flight with an increase in one country and one in another. The Falcon 9 Rocket Booster landed on the DRONESHIP “Simply read the instructions” (JRTI) off the coast of the island called Exuma on the Bahamas just more than eight minutes after lifting Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

The upswing of the Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-12 mission occurred on Tuesday, February 18, at 6.21 p.m. EST (2321 UTC). This was the 21st orbital start attempt by SpaceX of the year.

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Forecasts the 45th weather squadron based in the Patrick Space Force Base. Ideal conditions in the upswing for the primary window with one 95 percent chance for cheap weather. If SpaceX has to press into his backup window on Wednesday, the conditions are worsening an opportunity of 50 percent for good conditions.

“Cool and dry conditions have now transferred most of Florida in Florida after yesterday’s cold front, which is currently gliding into the far from South Florida. Similar weather continues until the first part of Tuesday, with the winds deviating from the Eastern nortal east, ”wrote Weather Weather Officers.

“The deeper moisture connected to this front will work north again late a day when the old front crawls north. This does not seem to be fast enough to bring a significant threat to the Atlantic shower for the primary start window on Tuesday evening. “

SpaceX used the Falcon 9 First Stage Booster, Heck number B1080 to start the Starlink 10-12 Mission on his 16th flight. Before that, it started four kite flights to the international space station, the Euclid Observatory of the European Space Agency, Astra 1p and Nine Starlink missions.

The TouchDown from Booster on Jrti was the 110th landing on this thronship and the previous 410 Booster landing.

Falcon 9 lands for the first time off the coast of the Bahamas! Welcome to space @Visitthebahamas! pic.twitter.com/eidyl5pyv

– SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 18, 2025