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SpaceX's 200th Falcon 9 rocket launch looks absolutely gorgeous in these photos - Space.com

SpaceX's 200th Falcon 9 rocket launch looks absolutely gorgeous in these photos - Space.com

SpaceX's 200th Falcon 9 rocket launch looks absolutely gorgeous in these photos - Space.com
Feb 03, 2023 51 secs

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket notched its 200th successful orbital mission on Thursday (Feb. 2), and the company marked the milestone by sharing some stunning photos of the spaceflight action.

A Falcon 9 lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Thursday morning, carrying 53 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites skyward.

The two-stage rocket's reusable first stage came back for a landing — the fifth overall for that particular booster — on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas just under nine minutes after launch.

SpaceX celebrated the success of the mission — its eighth of 2023 already — a few hours later via Twitter(opens in new tab), posting three dazzling photos of the Falcon 9 in flight.

That number will continue to grow for quite some time; SpaceX already has permission to loft 12,000 Starlink spacecraft, and the company has applied for approval to deploy 30,000 more satellites on top of that.

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.

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