Elon Musk’s SpaceX Sends Another 49 Starlink Satellites to Space, Reusable Falcon 9 Lands Back on Earth

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Sends Another 49 Starlink Satellites to Space, Reusable Falcon 9 Lands Back on Earth
SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks on a screen during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, on June 29, 2021. Nacho Doce/Reuters
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Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk-owned SpaceX on Tuesday successfully launched 49 more Starlink satellites to earth’s low orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

What Happened

SpaceX’s partially reusable Falcon 9 rocket that can transport payloads as well as humans into earth and beyond, launched the satellites at 9:02 p.m. ET.

Minutes after the liftoff, the Falcon 9 successfully landed back on the “A Shortfall of Gravitas” droneship.