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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket spotted from space before and after epic 105-satellite launch (images) - Space.com
Jan 14, 2022 1 min, 2 secs

A Falcon 9 successfully delivered 105 satellites to orbit Thursday (Jan. 13), including 44 "SuperDove" cubesats for Planet, a San Francisco-based company that operates the world's biggest constellation of Earth-observing satellites!

The mission, called Transporter-3, marked the 10th launch of this particular Falcon 9's first stage — and its 10th landing as well.

About nine minutes after lifting off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the booster aced a soft touchdown just a few miles away from the launch pad, at SpaceX's Landing Zone 1.

Related: Photos of Earth from space by Planet's satellites.

And just for fun - a Planet SkySat captured video today of @SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage booster back on the ground after its 10th trip to space.

One SkySat photo shows the Transporter-3 Falcon 9 standing at attention at Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40 on Wednesday (Jan. 12), one day before liftoff.

And on Thursday, Planet posted on Twitter a SkySat video of the Falcon 9 first stage shortly after it touched down at Landing Zone 1!

— SpaceX, Planet ink deal to launch Earth-imaging satellites through 2025.

"We were thrilled to launch once again with SpaceX, who has now brought to orbit a total of 127 Planet satellites across eight launches," Planet co-founder and CEO Will Marshall wrote in a blog post Thursday.

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