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April 23 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit Tuesday evening from Space Launch Complex 40 astatine Cape Canaveral Space Force Station successful Florida.
Liftoff occurred astatine 6:17 EDT pinch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sending nan payload of 23 Starlink satellites into orbit.
The Falcon 9 rocket's first-stage booster landed connected an autonomous drone vessel successful nan Atlantic Ocean aft separating from nan rocket's 2nd shape and its payload.
The full ngo was scheduled to return astir an hr and 5 minutes to complete from motorboat to outer deployment.
The ngo was nan ninth formation for nan first-stage booster that antecedently completed 5 Starlink satellite-deployment missions and 3 different missions.
