The 100th Falcon 9 landing was done by the new Starlink batches.
The M5.5 class solar flare was captured by the spacecraft.
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The company tied its booster-reuse record on Monday, when it launched nearly four dozen satellites and landed the returning rocket.
A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 9:44 a.m. It was a clear, blue sky.
Nine minutes after liftoff, the first stage of the Falcon 9 came back down to Earth on the A Shortfall of Gravitas, which was located in the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred miles off the Florida coast. It was the 100th landing for the Falcon 9 rocket for the company. The company aced its 100th landing back in December.
The deployment of 46 Starlink satellites is scheduled to occur about an hour from now, according to the production manager. The lack of ground station video links with the satellites ended the live webcast by SpaceX.
The Starlink satellite megaconstellation was launched in photos.
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The 11th launch and landing of this particular Falcon 9 first stage took place on Monday. That tied the reuse record set by a different Falcon 9 booster during a Starlink launch.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 was used to launch the Crew demo-2 flight and the Anasis-II satellite mission for South Korea.
Anderson said that the two halves of the rocket's nose cone made return trips to space on the flight, each flying on their third mission.
The impact of water landings has decreased due to improvements on the fairings and the overall refurbishment process.
The first and second images are image 1 and image 2.
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Three big Starlink batches have already been launched this year, two in January and one in February. The February 3 mission ran into trouble because of a solar eruption.
The storm boosted drag on the Starlink satellites. Up to 40 of the 49 spaceships came crashing back to Earth.
According to Spaceflight Now, the number of satellties was reduced from 49 to 46 in order to release the new Starlink satellites. They will be deployed in a near-circular target that will range between 202 miles and 209 miles, according to Spaceflight Now.
The satellites lost in the solar storm had an altitude of about 130 miles. The company deliberately deploys its large batches of Starlink satellites into low altitudes so that they can fall back to Earth and burn up in the atmosphere if they suffer a malfunction.
More than 200 Starlink satellites have fallen from the sky after being launched, according to Spaceflight Now. The company is not done. Up to 30,000 more Starlink craft could be launched by the company if it gets permission from an international regulator.
The company's Starlink internet satellite project aims to provide high-speed internet access to customers anywhere on Earth, especially in underserved or extremely remote areas of the planet where internet service is difficult to obtain.
The launch was pushed back a day due to bad weather.
The successful launch and landing of the seventh space mission of the company marked the fourth dedicated to Starlink. Anderson said it was the company's 38th Starlink mission and 145th launch overall.
The story was changed at 10:32 a.m. The successful launch of the Starlink mission will be reported. The mission carried 46 Starlink satellites, not 49.
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