SpaceX with success launches a Falcon nine booster for a record seventh time

 SpaceX  has launched yet one more Starlink mission, adding sixty more Starlink satellites to its low-Earth orbit constellation. That’s excellent news for its efforts to blanket the world in high-speed broadband, and today’s flight is even higher news for its equally vital ambition of developing more reusable rocket systems, since the first-stage booster that helped launch today’s Falcon nine rocket created a best seventh trip.

SpaceX  broke its own reusability records of six flights for a reused first-stage rocket component, and it additionally recovered the booster with a controlled landing victimization its drone flight within the Atlantic Ocean, which suggests it may doubtless break this record with yet one more future flight for this same booster.

Today’s launch took faraway from promontory Air Force Station in Florida, lifting off at 9:13 PM Eastern Time (6:13 PM PST). The flight additionally uses a fairing cowl to shield the payload on its thanks to house that had flown previously, as well as one 0.5 that’s flown one previous mission, and another that’s been used double before.

SpaceX  aims for larger usability as the simplest way to still cut back prices – each time it flies a part employed in a previous mission, it realizes a point of value savings vs. victimisation all new elements. Today’s mission represents probably its most efficient flight thus far as a result.

This is SpaceX’s sixteenth Starlink mission so far, and it's now launched nearly 1,000 total little satellites for its constellation. The service is presently in operation in beta, and recently dilated from parts of the U.S. to areas in southern Canada .