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| 9 Merlin 1D engines + Rain birds + Fire & Fury - Up Close look at SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink Veterans Day launch on 11 Nov. 2019 at 9:56 a.m. EDT with rain birds firing water coolant from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL that successfully delivered 2nd batch of 60 improved Starlink broadband satellites to LEO. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com |
Ken Kremer - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – The second batch of 60 SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites blasted off today on a beautiful Veterans Day Monday morning, Nov. 11 atop the first ever quadruply launched Falcon 9 first stage booster and first ever re-flown payload fairingsm encapsulating the next generation payload stack - thereby marking multiple truly historic milestones in spaceflight soaring aloft from the Florida Space Coast.
Moreover this slew of upgraded Starlink satellites also counts as the heaviest payload to date launch on a Falcon 9.
Read the entire story at Space UpClose:
https://www.spaceupclose.com/2019/11/spacex-launches-2nd-batch-of-starlink-broadband-sats-with-1st-quadruply-launched-booster-and-1st-reflown-fairings-on-veterans-day-photos/
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