{"id":139452,"date":"2022-05-17T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/spacex-launches-two-starlink-missions-in-24-hours"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:02:51","slug":"spacex-launches-two-starlink-missions-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/spacex-launches-two-starlink-missions-in-24-hours","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches two Starlink missions in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-launches-two-starlink-missions-in-24-hours.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets have completed back-to-back Starlink launches less than 24 hours apart, successfully delivering 106 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).<\/p>\n<p>Originally scheduled just a handful of hours apart, slight delays eventually saw Starlink 4\u201313 and Starlink 4\u201315 settle on 6:07 pm EDT, May 13th and 4:40 pm EDT, May 14th, respectively. Entering the final stretch, launch preparations went smoothly and both Falcon 9 rockets ultimately lifted off without a hitch.<\/p>\n<p>The series began with Starlink 4\u201313 on Friday. SpaceX chose Falcon 9 B1063 to support the Starlink launch and the booster did its job well, wrapping up its fifth launch since November 2020 with a rare landing aboard drone ship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY). Since SpaceX permanently transferred OCISLY from the East Coast to the West Coast in mid-2021, the drone ship has only supported five booster recoveries. Save for an unusual East Coast Starlink launch in May 2021, Falcon 9 B1061 has also primarily been tasked with supporting SpaceX\u2019s West Coast launch manifest. With only one older pad \u2013 Vandenberg Space Force Base\u2019s (VSFB) SLC-4 complex \u2013 available to SpaceX, the company\u2019s West Coast Falcon launches are also considerably rarer than its East Coast missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets have completed back-to-back Starlink launches less than 24 hours apart, successfully delivering 106 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO). Originally scheduled just a handful of hours apart, slight delays eventually saw Starlink 4\u201313 and Starlink 4\u201315 settle on 6:07 pm EDT, May 13th and 4:40 pm EDT, May 14th, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}