UPDATE 10 AM EST (1500 UTC): SpaceX lands the first stage booster on the droneship.
SpaceX launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites from California during a Falcon 9 flight Friday morning.
The Starlink 11-6 mission launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at 6:07 a.m. PST (9:07 a.m. EST, 1407 UTC).
SpaceX used Falcon 9 booster 1063 on this mission, which was its 23rd launch. It previously supported three missions for the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA’s DART mission, and 14 previous Starlink flights.
A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1063 landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’, marking the 118th booster landing on OCISLY and the 401st booster landing to date.
