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SpaceX pulls off hat trick, launching 3rd rocket in 36 hours
SpaceX just completed a remarkable spaceflight tripleheader.
A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday (June 19) at 12:27 a.m. EDT (0427 GMT), carrying a communications satellite for the Louisiana-based company Globalstar to orbit.
Ten minutes after liftoff, the rocket's first stage came back to Earth for a vertical landing on the SpaceX droneship Just Read The Instructions, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast. The satellite was deployed into orbit about 1 hour and 50 minutes after launch as planned, SpaceX tweeted (opens in new tab).
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches a communications satellite for the company Globalstar on June 19, 2022. (Image credit: SpaceX)
It was the third mission for SpaceX in just over 36 hours. The company launched 53 of its Starlink internet satellites on Friday (June 17) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and lofted a radar satellite for the German military from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday (June 18).
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket comes down for a landing at sea on June 19, 2022, after launching a communications satellite for the company Globalstar. It was the ninth landing for this booster. (Image credit: SpaceX)
The Friday mission set a new rocket-reuse record for SpaceX; the Falcon 9 that flew it featured a first stage that already had 12 launches under its belt. (Sunday's launch was the ninth for this particular Falcon 9 first stage, according to a SpaceX mission description (opens in new tab).)
SpaceX has really ratcheted up its launch pace this year, even before the trifecta. Sunday morning's liftoff was the the company's 26th of 2022, and the year isn't even half over yet.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There (opens in new tab)" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall (opens in new tab). Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens in new tab) or on Facebook (opens in new tab).
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