A SpaceX Falcon 9 blasted off from Florida within the predawn Saturday sky, simply two weeks after one other of the corporate’s workhorse rockets despatched NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the Worldwide House Station. 

The corporate had adopted up its historic first launch of people only a few days later, with a launch of Starlink satellites, and now it is pulled off its first Starlink ride-share, carrying 58 of its personal broadband satellites, together with three Earth observing spacecraft for Planet Labs.

The mission brings the overall variety of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit to greater than 500, whereas rising Planet’s SkySat fleet to 18. SpaceX’s Starlink goals to finally embody tens of 1000’s of orbiting routers that’ll blanket the Earth in broadband web entry, whereas the SkySats will assist Planet Labs develop imagery of the Earth’s floor. 

The primary stage booster had beforehand flown twice, each occasions on Dragon cargo resupply missions to the ISS. It was efficiently recovered once more when it landed on a droneship within the Atlantic Ocean lower than 10 minutes after launch.

You possibly can watch a recording of the entire mission above.