SpaceX Launches 56 Starlink Satellites in Successful Mission.

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SpaceX Launches 56 Starlink Satellites in Successful Mission.
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Despite a weather delay, SpaceX successfully launched 56 Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space For Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, marking the company's 30th mission of 2023 from the Space Coast. The first-stage booster landed on the company’s droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas downrange in the Atlantic. SpaceX has flown 13 times from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as well as the test launch attempt of its in-development Starship and Super Heavy from its Boca Chica, Texas, launch facility Starbase. The company has at least two more crewed flights planned for 2023 and three more planned launches of Falcon Heavy. Meanwhile, ULA has faced delays on several of its planned launches for the year.

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