SpaceX successfully completed its 80th orbital launch in 2023: video and photos

This is the 270th flight of Falcon 9 rockets.

The space company SpaceX today completed its 80th orbital launch in 2023, placing more than 1,000 tons of cargo into orbit.

A Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 second-generation Starlink internet satellites into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The launch took place at 00:05 US East Coast time (08:05 Moscow time) on November 8, 2023.

The launch was successful and the company has already reported the deployment of 23 Starlink satellites in orbit. Meanwhile, the first stage of the launch vehicle successfully landed on an autonomous floating platform called Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.