SpaceX Falcon 9 launches latest satellite batch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched on Tuesday night from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It carried a new batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit for the Starlink internet satellite constellation system, which is being developed by SpaceX.

According to the SpaceX website, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket booster used in this mission successfully returned to earth, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the seventh mission for this particular Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster, dating back to 2018.