SpaceX Starlink Soars to Orbit on 1st 5th Launched Falcon 9 on 2nd Try Despite Engine Failure: Photos

Daytime streak 30 second single image shows SpaceX blastoff of 1st 5th launched Falcon 9 soaring past fluttering US Flag and Countdown clock to orbit on 6th #Starlink mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, FL at 816 a.m. March 18, 2020 – as seen from KSC press site. With media colleagues practicing social distancing!! Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com

18 March 2020

Ken Kremer – - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After engine troubles scrubbed the first try on Sunday, SpaceX engineers finally launched the 1^st 5^th launched Falcon 9 on the 2^nd try from the Florida Space Coast and the next batch of 60 Starlink broadband satellites successfully achieved orbit – but only after one of the nine first stage Merlin engines shut down prematurely and the recycled booster failed to achieved a landing on the ocean going droneship.

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