SpaceX Completes 40th Launch from Space Coast in 2024
The milestone launch, carrying 23 Starlink satellites, highlights the region's growing space activity.
- The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:24 a.m.
- This launch marked the 10th flight for the first-stage booster, which successfully landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
- SpaceX has conducted 38 of the 40 launches from the Space Coast this year, with United Launch Alliance handling the remaining two.
- The Space Coast could see over 100 launches by the end of 2024, doubling the pace set in 2023.
- Upcoming missions include SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy launch of the year and ULA's Atlas V carrying NASA astronauts to the ISS.
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